Icon mask too small

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sonicjones
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Icon mask too small

Postby sonicjones » Tue Jul 19, 2005 15:06

This is not just a Pyramix issue. It applies to Windows in general, but since we have no influence on the OS, I would like to suggest that Merging pay a bit more attention to the size of their icons and the accurate masking of same, so that it doesn't take such precise clicking on an icon just to perform a routine operation. Case in point being the desktop Pyramix application icon. Unless you are very careful, you can expect to attempt to double-click this baby 2 or 3 times just to start Pyramix. It appears that the only active part of the icon is the tiny, little orange bit of the pyramid. Think "Studer A-80" (with those great big buttons) when you design the next batch of interface controls. OK?

Thanks!
-Bruce

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Re: Icon mask too small

Postby Graemme » Wed Jul 20, 2005 07:46

Version 5 has a mode with much larger 'buttons'.

In Windows, right-click on the desktop and choose 'properties', then the 'appearance' tab. There's an 'Item' selector: choose 'Icon' and now you can re-size the windows icons (try something around '48' - the default is '32')

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Graemme


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sonicjones wrote:This is not just a Pyramix issue. It applies to Windows in general, but since we have no influence on the OS, I would like to suggest that Merging pay a bit more attention to the size of their icons and the accurate masking of same, so that it doesn't take such precise clicking on an icon just to perform a routine operation. Case in point being the desktop Pyramix application icon. Unless you are very careful, you can expect to attempt to double-click this baby 2 or 3 times just to start Pyramix. It appears that the only active part of the icon is the tiny, little orange bit of the pyramid. Think "Studer A-80" (with those great big buttons) when you design the next batch of interface controls. OK?

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Postby sonicjones » Wed Jul 20, 2005 14:39

Excellent! Can't wait to try it.

Thanks!
-Bruce