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From: rtczegledi@crocus.waterloo.edu (Richard Czegledi)
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Subject: Re: Icon sizes, Workbench hand (was Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist)
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Date: 12 Aug 89 18:50:02 GMT
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Regarding:  Hugepiles of rambling nonesense about shrinkable icons.

Seems to me what most people want is a tiny icon, just enough to distinguish
what type of file it is.

IE:  A tiny pic of page for a textfile
     A little teenie weenie file cabinet for a drawer... etc...
 
Well, if Workbench 1.4 allows you to display the actual text files through
workbench, then they should allow it to have a 'type' icon, that sits
beside the textfile, indicating what type of file it was.  This can be
done to a certain extent with the protection bits already available.
 
A little script icon (tiny) for any file that has a script bit set.
A weewee pic of a chip or something for an executable
 
---BUT--- if people want next to invisible icons that are all of a generic
sort of look (you can't have much variety in tiny icons), then what's the
-> POINT <- of an icon interface?  It might as well be text if you have
to look at the file names rather than the pictures.

Having small uniform icons (like the directory drawer icons) isn't in the
spirit of an icon oriented interface.  I myself have about 7 diferent drawer
icons.  The file cabinet, the 'amigo times' drawers (nice), and other ones
for 'C' and 'Rexx' stuff.  It helps.

Still, I think the programmers of 1.4 should look into my earlier suggestion
of files 'under' files.  Would improve the image of the machine incredibly.