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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.173557.7038@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 22 Jun 91 17:35:57 GMT
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jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:

>Quoted from <13863@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> by aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sri Ramkrishna):
>> In article <4618.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
>> >
>> >    When you're doing this, you need to have the proper icon
>> >    representation, so you can position it in a pixel perfect manner.
>> 
>> What about using a keystroke in combination?  For instance, <amiga> and then

>    With a 3-button mouse the options would be more open, of course.
>    Does the Mac still get along with one? Perhaps we can use a code
>    of mouse clicks - 3 long clicks means make the icon full size and
>    make it stick to the mouse pointer in preparation for moving. :)

  Boy, the human interface people would sure love this one :)

  I'm a bit confused at all this large icon talk.  Presumably, you can only
drag something onto something else if you can actually see part of the icon.
Then why can't the destination icon just be auto-highlighted as soon as
the mouse pointer is on top of the part that is visible?  That way, you get
immediate feedback as to which application will be launched.
  Or has the discussion on this moved on to some other factor since I last
checked in?

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