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After upgrading my NeXTColor and NeXTDimension stations to 3.0
(in fact, following the M's suggestion* I did a new installation on my ND,
to gain better disk tuning), I am more and more impressed by beauty of the
colorful interface. Despite of old habits, I have set now the File Viewer
for displaying views in the "Icon" (and not "Browser") mode.

The directories like "/NextAdmin", "/NextApps" and "NextDeveloper/Demos"
really take the breath away. All details still have the master touch of
Keith Ohlfs. The NeXT's team has managed to maintain the difficult balance
between discipline of computer science and beauty of the fine art.

I am sincerely impressed.

And therefore my proposal:

Would it be possible to start collecting of nice icons, may be distributed
by NeXT, which would enable keeping the style while organizing own tree
of subdirectories ?
Users would be able to move some icons as ".dir.tiff" (and also ".opendir.tiff")
arranging directory views. So, the Mailboxes, Apps and other directories would
tell by icon their character.

This would complement distribution of the Objects, and would be in a sense
revolutionary in GUI design.

Of course, using the IconBuilder (or Icon) everybody could create some icons,
but it is important to maintain the impressionistic, fairy (and delicate) touch.
This would be in even stronger contrast to Windows (and NT).
Why not to keep the impetus ?


   ... dreaming in colors ...

	-Z.



*) M Carling had written longer (as for him) explanation of reasons why
"newly install" instead "upgrade" to 3.0.
May be this statement could be repeated for people who did not notice this
info ?