folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) (05/17/91)
I did something bad and had to rebuild my desktop. It warns you that you will use Get Info comments. BUT, it preserves any icons you have pasted onto, say, folders! That's nice. Question: how are people using this ability? I took my application's icons and pasted them onto the folders containing them. But then it was too easy to mistake the real application for its folder (double-clicking to open a folder and getting a launch instead). So, I appended the option-f to folder names. What are other people doing? Anything like this? Will there be any consensus? -- Wayne Folta (folta@cs.umd.edu 128.8.128.8)
2fmlcalls@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (05/17/91)
In article <34568@mimsy.umd.edu>, folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes: > Question: how are people using this ability? I took my application's icons and > pasted them onto the folders containing them. But then it was too easy to > mistake the real application for its folder (double-clicking to open a folder > and getting a launch instead). So, I appended the option-f to folder names. > > What are other people doing? Anything like this? Will there be any consensus? > > Wayne Folta (folta@cs.umd.edu 128.8.128.8) The same thing you did occured to me as well. As an alternative I pooped into ResEdit, grabbed the folder icon from the System (or Finder? I forget) and made a number of copies of it. I then tediously modified these (often with appropriate app icons). As an example, I took the MacWrite document icon and placed it over a folder. Result: a folder with a small typed sheet of paper on it. It's still clearly a folder, but obvious that it contains word processing stuff or such. (Consider the Apple Menu folder in your System folder that has the apple on it). I spent several days and have amassed perhaps 40 or 50 folder icons. When I get the time I'm going to put them all in a Scrapbook and upload it somewhere. john calhoun
vkwx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (05/17/91)
In article <34568@mimsy.umd.edu>, folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes: > I did something bad and had to rebuild my desktop. It warns you that you will > use Get Info comments. BUT, it preserves any icons you have pasted onto, say, > folders! That's nice. > > Question: how are people using this ability? I took my application's icons and > pasted them onto the folders containing them. But then it was too easy to > mistake the real application for its folder (double-clicking to open a folder > and getting a launch instead). So, I appended the option-f to folder names. > > What are other people doing? Anything like this? Will there be any consensus? Maybe someone could rig up a little application that would do this: let you select any file, take its _small_ icon, put the icon inside a large icon of a folder, and either put the new icon into the Clipboard or let you select a folder to paste it to. Any takers? Ed Swierk
ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath) (05/17/91)
In article <34568@mimsy.umd.edu>, folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes: > Question: how are people using this ability? I took my application's icons and > pasted them onto the folders containing them. But then it was too easy to > mistake the real application for its folder (double-clicking to open a folder > and getting a launch instead). So, I appended the option-f to folder names. From article <1991May16.192210.30825@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, by 2fmlcalls@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu: > ...I pooped into > ResEdit, grabbed the folder icon from the System (or Finder? I forget) and > made a number of copies of it. I then tediously modified these (often with > appropriate app icons)... Try this: - open the app with ResEdit 2.1. Double click the icon you want to edit; you'll get the icon family editor. - if there's no small icons, drag the large icon to the small icon to create one - click the small icon. Double click the marquee (marching ants). Copy. - Now go to a copy of the standard folder icon. Paste the small icon onto the standard folder icon, dragging for a nicd effect. I guess I'm lazy, but sicn+folder is a bit quicker for me... -- =Ned Horvath= ehorvath@attmail.com