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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1394@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 91 12:05:55 GMT
References: <1991Jun15.180607.10502@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Jun16.214309.18102@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun17.123525.1485@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Jun18.165401.26383@ifi.unizh.ch> <1991Jun19.154113.28723@news.iastate.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1991Jun19.154113.28723@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>
>   Drag-and-drop does sound interesting, but it ocurred to me that, in 
>order for drag-and-drop to work well on an Amiga, one additional feature
>will have to be added.
>
>   The problem is that on the Amiga, icons can be (and very often are)
>quite large.  Icons larger than about 30x30 (a typical, usable size on
>a 640x200 Workbench) are common, and it is not unusual to find icons as
>large as half of the screen.  Icons this large can play havoc with a
>feature like drag-and-drop, because when the user drags an unusually large 
>icon over a cluster of applications, the user will not be able to tell
>which application will be launched when the icon is released.

Yes he is, because it is so simple: It's just the icon under the mouse
pointer that becomes the destination. You have the same problem also
today when you have selected all icons inside a window and want to drag
them into another one. Then you hold Shift depressed, click on one of
the icons and drag it to the destination. The other icons will move in
parallel to really weird places, but will end up in the same drawer/window
as the first one.

>   To solve this problem, one additional selection needs to be added to
>the "Show By" options in the Workbench 2.0 menus.

Not necessary, I think.

BTW, may I express my humbly opinion to the software producers,
that TOO big icons are really annoying? They take away place on
your Workbench, they need always an own window for themselves,
because no other icon finds place besides them, and you have to
do excessive front and back clicking to get to other icons.
This is not fair and friendly.

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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