Apple Macintosh - Understanding Macintosh Icons and Windows

50 Macintosh User's Handbook
Figure 3.6. Desktop surface with File me nu opened
You may have run out of room to maneuver your mouse
in the last exercise. You can solve this problem by picking up
the mouse and moving it to a new location on your working
surface. Notice that when you pick up the mou se and mov e it,
the arrow on the Des ktop remain s in the same po sition.
Icons
So far we hav e examined only two icons, th e System Disk
icon and the Trash icon. Five general types of icons are used by
the Mac . The se are:
• Disk icons
• Application s program icons
• Document icons
• Folder icons
• Mini-Mac icons