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From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Thing Icon
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Date: 24 Jun 91 17:14:01 GMT
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john@thelonius.mitre.org (John D. Burger) writes:

>graphical editor for the hierarchy, I suspect we'll just use text for
>the nodes, because I don't think it's possible to come up with icons
>for PROPERTY or SITUATION, let alone ROOT.

I agree for PROPERTY or SITUATION, but ROOT is easy. Just take the
roots of a tree (Of course that doesn't have anything to do with the
meaning of the root node, but everyone who sees the root-icon knows
immediately that it represents the root-node). Take a look at the
xfaces icons for nice ideas to represent accounts on a unix-system.

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