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- From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: App(Icon|Window) and Style Guide.
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 06:54:04 GMT
- Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Lines: 38
- Message-ID: <1hbmqcINNgl4@uwm.edu>
- References: <1h3kutINN55t@uwm.edu> <paulk.2woe@terapin.com>
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- In article <paulk.2woe@terapin.com> paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz) writes:
-
- In an unattributed segment of my own article, to my astonishment... I
- sounded a little too lucid for my own good, methinks. ;) I didn't
- even reconize that I had written it, at first. It just seemed
- "familiar"...
- >> I agree, lets standardize the drop system by making AppIcons and
- >> AppWindows have the "lip". More importantly, if, someday, C=
- >> decides to make an icon type (when .info files are no more, and
- >> everybody uses 2.0 std. functions for accessing them) that allows
- >> "dropping" onto them (The WB's copy function would simply examine
- >> the icon's type, and if it was of type STD_DropApp, do whatever),
- >> that icon could have a lip too.
- >
- >I strongly agree! Tool icons and AppIcons should ideally behave the
- >same and should be visually distinct from project/drawer/etc icons.
- >I don't care what the visual distinction is as long as it exists.
-
- Right. If it's going to FUNCTION differently than a normal icon, then
- it should LOOK different than a normal icon. And all of the "drop"
- types should be just that--a set of similar types. Similar functions.
- Similar looks.
-
- Oh, I'll just copy this icon over onto this icon, and make myself a
- copy on that drive.
-
- Wait a sec.
-
- Why is BLAZEMACS loading that? (BLAZEMACS had been set in "lets fool
- the user by using the standard drive icon for the appicon" mode by
- Customer Service on their last visit)...
-
- Greg
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