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- From: joshr@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Joshua Rabinowitz-Summer-91)
- Subject: Re: Color Disk Icons?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.190935.2619@kronos.arc.nasa.gov>
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- References: <1992Oct26.135346.4900@bio.vu.nl> <1992Nov3.055656.7844@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:09:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov3.055656.7844@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead) writes:
- >ebido@bio.vu.nl (Etienne Bido) writes:
- >
- >>Is it possible to have the Finder display the icons of inserted floppies
- >>in color? I know there are extensions like Cfloppy but I would like to know
- >>how to resedit the finder or system to use color icons. Peeking around
- >>in the system and finder I saw that there are color icons (icls) for
- >>coloured disks, so why aren't they used?
- >
- > You can use something like SpeedyFinder, but I don't trust that one.
- >Besides, the icon drawing isn't very Mac-like as it doesn't convert
- >properly when you switch to a different bit depth.
- > If you REALLY want NICE color icons on your floppies, find a cool one
- >and paste it into the info box of each and every floppy you own. :)
- >
-
-
- DOes anyone know how to find the regions of disk, folder and mounted
- disks on the desktop?
- It's fairly easy (I assume) to find files on the desktop --
- but how about the regions that the icons and names occupy?
-
- Any hints will be appreciated. This is for a project of my
- own that could conceivable become shareware.
-
- joshr@kronos.arc.nasa.gov
-
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