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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
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Subject: Re: ICON scheme, yucccchh.  yishh.. Bletch.
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Date: Sun, 5-Oct-86 03:13:45 EDT
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	I don't much like the workbench's ICON scheme either.  It doesn't
work well with the Amiga's directory structure.  I don't think it would be
a major hack for C-A to simply put it all in a single file with a known
name.  That would get rid of all the $#% directory traversals and make the
workbench windows and icons come up almost instantaniously.  If this 
file didn't exist (say, the file is called .icons instead of .icon), the
WB would default to the old method (if you really want to keep compatibility).

	Using such a scheme, you could impliment addition/deletion much like
a UNIX directory entry.... you don't actually delete the space when you
delete an icon, just free it up for other entries.  For something like this,
there would be no need to actually 'insert' icons when you add them, just
append them to the file or find a hold to put them in.

	There is another advantage to using this new system: The disk doesn't
get as cluttered.  I really hate seeing all those .icon files strewn
around my disks in the middle of the *real* stuff.

					-Matt