🚀 go-pugleaf

ahersee@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Hersee) writes:
: davism@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mik Davis) writes:
: >  As this project would seem to involve altering the filer in a fairly major
: >way, how about allowing directories to have sprites anyway (rather that having
: >to use up one of your characters labelling it) I don't know whether this would 
: >be anything like possible realy though.
: >  If we must have a 'special character' to mark a directory which has an icon
: >then can we have somethin unobtrusive like '-' NOT '*' or '?' etc. "~' might
: >be quite usefull...
: 
: Well I used to not have a label like you suggest. But the problem I had with
: this was that if another application went and did an IconSprite to include a
: sprite for it's windows and it so happened that I had a directory called that
: my sprite would get redefined. (Good example Arch World's Waiter program
: often had a sprite called Games)

  yes, I know what you are saying but there ought to be some way of getting 
around this using filetypes, after all, what are filetypes for if not to
do what 'filename extensions' do in DOS etc. And where's the point in having a
special filename character/extension when the directory has (presumably) a 
unique filetype anyway. What is needed is a system whereby a sprite is only
used for a directory if the name matches *AND* the file it's being used for
is of type 'directory'.

: 
: I now use a special character I never have used '*'. In my original letter I
: used * since the character I use does not exist in unix. I did in fact
: state this in the article. The character I use is the one that looks like:
: 
: 
:                \.-./
:                 | |
:                /`-'\
: 
: Well nearly anyway :-) Nothing uses that at the moment and I have never seen
: a sprite in the icon sprite pool with that character in it. Anyone know what
: that character is called ?

  I don't know what it's called but you are probably right about it not getting
used much.

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