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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Iconitis
Message-ID: <3771@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 9 Apr 89 14:31:42 GMT
References: <1930@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <11555@lanl.gov> <1264@microsoft.UUCP>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <1264@microsoft.UUCP>, paulc@microsoft.UUCP (Paul Canniff 2/1011) writes:
> Also, icons which are "objects" (buzzword alert) do more than a menu
> can do.   You can drag stuff to them (trash can, anyone?) and have them
> "do something" to the stuff.  So in addition to having an icon represent
> an object, it can be an "active" object.  

And it did that on the original icon machine, the Xerox Star.

But Apple didn't follow suit, so all the rest of the icon-using folks have
left that significant functionality off. It's like watching gangrene spread,
you know, watching all the foul-ups Apple implemented becoming a standard:
button-starved mice, menu bars, desk accessories, militant iconism...
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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