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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Better Icons
Message-ID: <1489@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 16:02:19 EST
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1489
Posted: Fri Apr 17 16:02:19 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 01:30:58 EST
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Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <1684@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) writes:
>   We do care how the icons look, but were generally forced to follow
>certain design rules:
>
>   - all vertical lines double width 
>        (for clarity on composite monitors)

WONDERFUL :-(  How are we going to shake the 'toy computer' stigma by
catering to cheapo monitors instead of ones the machine was really
designed for?

If you have to have a 'design rule', how about:

    - all horizontal lines double width
       (for minimum flicker in hi-res)

or
    - make medium res icons slightly tall and skinny so they don't look
      so comicly short and fat in hi-res

Though I'm not crazy about the idea of a 'rule' here at all, at least
these seem to hold us back a little less than the other one.

>   I would be interested in knowing which icons people like and dislike.
>But please don't be too cruel... I designed many of the new 1.2 icons.
>I'd also be interested in suggestions for replacement images.

I don't care too much for the 'drawer' icons.  I prefer the 'folder' 
style on the Mac and GEM, or maybe even something else.  I suppose a
sexy enough drawer icon could change my mind though.  Somebody's got
one that 'opens' when you click on it, all I can say to that one is
'big deal'.  Gotsta do better than that.

>  I've
>got a really nice disk icon (with upside down checkmark label) and
>a great old-fashioned typewriter that needs a program.

I've seen the disk icon, and agree it looks real good.  Got to get the
1.2 Format program to put it on disks instead of the old one.

Keith Doyle
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