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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <4618.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 21 Jun 91 22:35:20 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.123525.1485@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Jun18.165401.26383@ifi.unizh.ch> <1991Jun19.154113.28723@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun19.224736.15828@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <13824@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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Quoted from <13824@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> by aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sri-Man):
> Why can't the operating system be smart enough to resize the icon when you 
> move it?  When you start moving the icon then it should resize to some default

    Because some of the time when you move an icon, you are NOT going to
    "drag and drop" it - you are trying to change it's position on the
    Workbench. 

    When you're doing this, you need to have the proper icon
    representation, so you can position it in a pixel perfect manner.

> 	Sri
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