Snapshot Icons

[Cass]

This must be the place to refer things like the following :

The other day I tried to unsnapshot some drawers wich were overlapping with other icons. It`s a tedious task when the icons are numerous, plus there are certain dangers when trying to move them round the window, like dropping a file/directory into another directory.

So the peculiarity was that all of them started with the same letter. I decided to sort them by name (A+2) select the files that were snapshot over the old ones and finally unsnapshot them. The menues (Window & Icons ) allowed me to perform the above tasks, but the final result was no change!

Makes sense not to be able to snapshot an alphabetically sorted window viewed as file list, but this shouldn`t prevent me from changing the icon`s state to unsnaphot (which means on the next window update, the OS decides where to put the icon). Either case the forbidden tasks should have ghosted menue options.

Is this an overlooked OS funtion?

[nbache]

Is this an overlooked OS funtion?

I rather think it is a consequence of how Workbench's icon-centered nature has had to be pressed into doing such "unnatural" things as a text mode listing at all.

I think that when in text mode, Workbench doesn't really know about the icon any more (as opposed to the normal mode, where the icon - more or less - is the file to Workbench).

So it is pretty hard for Workbench to modify an icon's state at a time where it doesn't really know about said icon.

(Note: Mostly semi-informed guesswork on my part. If I'm way off, hopefully someone better informed will set us straight.)

Best regards,

Niels