davidl@intelod.intel.com (David Levine) (10/20/87)
I have an aesthetic complaint with MultiFinder. It's the reduced
application icons they use in the menubar and in the Apple menu to indicate
the application(s) that is/are running. The problem is that those reduced
icons are ugly. Ugly ugly UGLY! Not only that, but they're very hard to
recognize.
Is there any way to have MultiFinder use a SICN resource from the
application instead of reducing its ICN#? I suspect this can only be
done by Apple, but perhaps some talented hacker could make up an INIT to
patch MultiFinder in this way. I'd be glad to make up my own SICNs for
all my favorite applications, if only MultiFinder could be made to use
them. The only other thing I can think of to do is to edit my application
ICN#s to make them look better when reduced, but finding a design that
looks good at both full size and 50% reduction might be difficult or
impossible...
A greater sin is the reduced System icon they use in the System Folder
icon. The System Folder icon is not a reduced System ICN# stuck onto a
full-size folder ICN#, it's a single full-size ICN# and there's NO excuse
for using the ugly little reduced System icon in it. I've already edited
mine to look better.
The clean aesthetic design of the Finder is one of the reasons I prefer the
Mac to the Amiga, Atari, GEOS, or MS-Windows. Please help keep Oregon
beautiful! (Well, it's just a few square inches of Oregon, but I look at it
a LOT.)
-- David D. Levine, formerly of Tektronix, now of Intel
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