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From: george@swbatl.sbc.com (George Nincehelser 5-6544)
Subject: Re: New control panel icons in 7.0
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.205125.27515@swbatl.sbc.com>
Organization: Southwestern Bell Advanced Technology Laboratory
References: <671688005.1@mmug.mn.org> <1991Apr17.045421.29754@verity.com> <YEE.91Apr17140837@katana.osf.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 20:51:25 GMT

In article <YEE.91Apr17140837@katana.osf.org> yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) writes:
>In article <1991Apr17.045421.29754@verity.com> anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren) writes:
>	
>	Sound like a very bad user interface if the control panel icons look
>	worst than the current icons displayed in the 6.0 Control Panel.
>	User interfaces should get better, not worst.  I don't have 7.0, but
>	it seems that Apple had their heart in the wrong place in getting
>	rid of the Control Panel.  I think the Control Panel is a good idea.
>	The original Control Panel concept seem like a more natural way to
>	deal with the setting of system parameters than the 7.0 paradigm of
>	clicking on CDev files on the desktop.
>
Accessing the Control Panel is much like system 6.  The system 7 installer
puts an alias to the Control Panel folder in the Apple menu...so selecting
"Control Panel" in the Apple menu opens the Control Panel folder.

Double clicking on the control panel items seems more integrated with the
way things on a Mac normally operate.  It takes a little getting used to for
us old timers, but we can adapt.

It should be simple for someone to may a system 6 control panel look alike
for system 7.

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