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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
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Date: 24 Jun 91 03:19:39 GMT
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In article <1991Jun23.204705.23687@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>they were drag as outlines. The next generation UI being developed at
>Xerox PARC takes this one step further, they have animated icons since
>animation provides more information in less screen real estate.
>(Perhaps Apple will steal this too.)

I don't know what sort of animation the PARC GUI does, but the Mac has a couple
of different sorts of animated icons.  Most of it is a sort of two-frame
animation like the trashcan uses - basically a variant on the original, i.e.
a trashcan with contents has a bulging icon.  The other sort display when
inits are loaded.  This type has 8 frames.

Geez, Apple can't do anything right.  If they don't use a feature, they're
"old technology" and if they do, they "stole it."  I can guarantee you that
in spite of the inflated salaries and the requirements of the user base,
Apple DOES manage to do some smart things with all that research money.
Amazingly, people doing research on the same subject CAN come to similar
conclusions.