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- From: Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: App(Icon|Window) and Style Guide.
- Message-ID: <71913@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 15:23:04 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
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- Earlier in this thread, I wrote:
-
- >Icon 'drop-boxes' have an extruded border. In following that motif,
- >how about having AppIcons have an extruded border instead of a raised
- >border? This way, an application's AppIcon image could be the same
- >as the disk icon image, only the borders would be different.
- >
- >Opinions?
-
- Nobody's expressed an opinion on this. (Not even a negative one)
- So I'm going to pitch it again:
-
- The point has been raised several times here on the net that Workbench
- should somehow distinguish visually between standard icons and
- 'AppIcons'.
-
- I suggest as a simple solution that could be made part of the OS
- (technically, part of Workbench) that AppIcons should have the
- same 'lipped' border as icon drop boxes are supposed to have
- within an Application. The AppIcon imagery could be the same as
- that of the disk icon for that application. The border would
- distinguish it.
-
- e.g. If the disk icon The AppIcon would be:
- for 'Smiley-Pro' is:
-
- --------------
- ------------ |#############
- | # |# |#
- | O O # |# O O |#
- | # |# |#
- | \__/ # |# \__/ |#
- | # |# |#
- ############ |-----------|#
- ##############
-
-
- Where '-' and '|' are white lines, and '#" are black ones. (Use your
- imagination! :-> )
-
- Opinions?
-
-
- Lee Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com
-