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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Work Place Shell: The Future.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.234320.22137@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Nov11.204923.6315@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 23:43:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.204923.6315@gw.wmich.edu> x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
- >Dear IBM (if you are listening):
- > New Method of making programs have a certain Icon:
- > (This is a suggestion, this doesn't currently work):
- > Find Icon you want.
- > Click on right mouse button while on icon (object).
- > Select copy Object Icon.
- > Select the program you want to change icon of.
- > Click right button.
- > Select Paste Object Icon.
- > Done.
-
- Nice idea. However, perhaps we can make this even more WPS-like. How
- about keeping the first step, but having the pointer change to some
- sort of paint can or paint brush, then just clicking on the target
- changes the icon.
-
- Less flexible, I suppose. Multiple pastes would be useful.
-
- > Also, if anyone knows of a way to make all .wp5 or some
- >arbitrary extension come up with a certain icon (without having
- >to do trhough each one individually), please postit.
-
- From the command line you can do this using AddIcon Version 1.1,
- available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. Of course, I have
- a bit of an interest in this utility. :-)
-
- It isn't strictly automatic, but it does understand wildcards. One
- could also imagine setting up a daemon of sorts with very little extra
- effort (a background task running all the time which does nothing but
- assign icons to data files based on their extensions).
-
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