Patent: Multi-Sized Icon Interface for Mac OS X?
Right now, users can globally change icon sizes in Mac OS X in all windows, but with the newly described system icon sizes could be used to adjusted based on user preference.
"To this end," Apple wrote, "a user's arbitrary sizing of various icons in accordance with the present invention generates icon representations that can advantageously represent categorization of application or file importance, and/or the size of a file represented by an icon."
Apple's files patents for many ideas that are never actually implemented, but Apple's early multi-touch patents did first reveal technologies that made their way into the Apple iPhone.
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any reason why this is?
Imagine a *large* transparent icon where the click mask doesn't match the transparency.
Imagine placing it onto of other icons.
Imagine if it does something nefarious when opened.
Does anyone notice that the diagram looks like OS9?
any reason why this is?
Presented for you consideration...
Imagine a *large* transparent icon where the click mask doesn't match the transparency.
Imagine placing it onto of other icons.
Imagine if it does something nefarious when opened.
I like the theory behind this patent, but how to implement the resizing of icons intuitively, that's the hard part.
Presented for you consideration...
Imagine a *large* transparent icon where the click mask doesn't match the transparency.
Imagine placing it onto of other icons.
Imagine if it does something nefarious when opened.
Couldn't this happen now (not the size, but the transparent icon sitting on top of another one)?
Anyway, what could really happen? If it was something bad, you'd still have to download it or have it copied onto your computer before you could double-click it. And if it were to do anything too "nefarious" it would require you to put in your password. Seems like a pretty weak way to do something sinister.
It… It… It's so… B-B-Beauuuuuutiful.
Seriously though, it looks like it was drawn on a napkin.
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