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Subject: faster icons
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Date: Sat, 11-Apr-87 03:21:17 EST
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In article <953@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> ralph@mit-atrp.UUCP (Amiga-Man) writes:
> [...] I mentioned the idea of rewriting
>or replacing the "icon.library". I think it's actually called the
>"info.library". This is the set of routines which let the amiga diddle
>with the icons. Well, the crux of the idea is to have a single icon
>file in each directory, and by rewriting the "info.library" have a
>transparent use of that scheme instead of the old single .info file
>for each file. This would speed things up quite nicely.

There's a project going on on Genie to do a hard disk driver "Arthur"
to go with their cheap hard disk "Excalibur", and they are talking about
doing this sort of single icon thing. The project (the primary cheap
hard disk part, anyway) appears to be serious and well under way.

Also, there's a rumor that a group of unnamed ex-Amiga folks may be
doing this in the future.

Although one can only speculate, there does not appear to be any reason
to think that Commodore is working on such a thing.

There was some discussion on this and related topics in this group some
months ago; the debate seemed to split between people who loved CLI and
hated Workbench, and the one's who loved Workbench and hated CLI. Each
group held the opposing opinion over whether this would be a good thing
or not.
	Doug Merritt     ucbvax!ingres!hatcher

P.S. "Good ideas" like this often die for lack of volunteers.