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From: ragge@nada.kth.se (Ragnar Sundblad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: New System icon
Message-ID: <373@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 27 May 88 22:36:01 GMT
References: <184@hodge.UUCP>
Reply-To: ragge@nada.kth.se (Ragnar Sundblad)
Organization: The Royal Inst. of Techn., Stockholm
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In article <184@hodge.UUCP> adail@pnet06.cts.com (Alan Dail) writes:
>no, no, no, no, no.
>The whole point of having Icons is that the visual representation
>makes it easier to find the file you want easier than having to
>read the text.  The icon is supposed to represent what the cdev/init
>does.

no, no, no, no, no and yes
The file icon is supposed to represent what the *FILE* does/contains.
Just like the document icon and the application icon there should be
an init icon, cdev icon, rdev icon, etc, etc.