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Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1991 00:51:22 GMT
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Quoted from <1991Jun22.173557.7038@neon.Stanford.EDU> by torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie):
>   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.

    Workbench already has a drag and drop like operation, for copying
    files (ie: drag an icon over a disk icon, and it gets copied, etc).

    So I think the large icons argument is false.

    Auto selecting would be a problem, btw, because if the file icon is
    large and covers two or three application icons, how will the OS know
    which one to select? And if you go for some nice solution of using
    the position of the mouse pointer to judge, then you don't need to
    autoselect at all - just use the mouse pointer in the first place...

> Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
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