'Oscar the Grouch'

[annapanna]

The trash can in OS9 and below had a fun little extention 'Oscar the Grouch'

Did that go away for OS X? Is it possible to make a new one? A widget perhaps?

Thanks,
anna

[Zammy-Sam]

How about iCan?
And welcome to the forum.

[adambyte]

For those of you who have no idea what the hell is going on, the extension he's talking about, called "The Grouch," had only one function: Everytime you chose "Empty Trash" from the "Special" menu, an animated Oscar would pop the lid off of your real Trash icon, still with the trash lid on his head, sing a clip, "Oh, I... Love... Trash!..." and then pop back down. Genius, in a real cartoony way.

I have no idea how the extension figured out WHERE your trash icon was on the desktop. But it would, and then he'd pop out (making the icon appear bigger than it really was), and then pop down.

Could iCan animated everytime the trash is emptied, AND make an animation outside the icon's area?


Wow. I'm an old fart when it comes to Macs.

[kainjow]

I remember that little extension. Back in high school one of the Macs had it installed, that was where I first saw it. That thing was great! It brings back memories.

OS 9 had some great UI extensions and features that really made it stand out. I also remember the app that let you have animating icons for any file! Those were the days..

I Googled around for the Oscar thing but couldn't find any links to download.

[adambyte]

Well, even if you couldn't find it, it wouldn't run on OS X. Somebody would have to create a new version, specifically for OS X.

Also, anothe problem is... the default Trash icon for OS X is more like a wire wastebasket you'd have in an office.... not a traditional trashcan, at all, that Oscar would pop out of.

Any programmers up to it? lol

[texanpenguin]

Not to mention that it would look silly coming out of a waste basket, but the problem is, the Trash in OS X sits in the Dock, and so there's not any *room* for the icon to get larger like the Grouch used to do.

If someone was going to do this, it'd take some tricky coding and some replacement trash icons.

But I had him installed on all my old Macs. I was young, and it was brilliant. I used to trash all kinds of important things just to hear him sing his little song . I probably still have the Classic extension installed on my old Macs if anyone desperately wants it.

The problem was it would encourage young people to delete things .

[nixgeek]

I remember that little extension. I still have it somwhere on a CD that came with a Mac rag years ago.

I'd be willing to look for it if anyone is interested, although I'm sure it's on the Net somewhere :-p

[Andrew Adamson]

Well, I note that Mail has a context-sensitive icon that is programmatically controlled (the numbers that appear when there is unread mail) and Adium is animated and context-sensitive. To me, that suggests that it is possible.