Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!STEINBERG@RUTGERS.ARPA From: STEINBERG@RUTGERS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.works Subject: icons Message-ID: <2994@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Jul-83 13:40:21 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2994 Posted: Mon Jul 11 13:40:21 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Jul-83 20:19:49 EDT Lines: 9 I've been working recently on a Xerox Dolphin (Lisp machine, bitmapped screen, window-oriented software), and would like to add a piece of hard data to the discussion of icons: When I've been working for a while the screen gets kind of cluttered with various windows, menus, etc. The advantage of icons is that it seems easier to me to pick some item out of the clutter if I can recognize it by shape/picture than if I have to read the words in it to see what it is. -------