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From: 231b3678@fergvax.unl.edu (Phil Dietz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
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Date: 21 Jun 91 18:58:59 GMT
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In <1394@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:

>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.

Maybe Commodore should implement the MAC's "Show by Small ICON" method.
Only a simple scaling function would be needed to say scale icons to a
certain nxm size like (20 x 20).
 
a 80 x 70 icon would scale to 20 x 20 as well as a 23 x 23 icon.
All icons larger than 20 x 20 would be scaledd appropriately to be 20 x 20.
 
Easy.  And it allows easy multiple-drag-and-drop.

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                                                         Phil Dietz
    "Phil is the man with a plan"          231b3678@fergvax.unl.edu
                     -- Confucious           University of Nebraska