Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!orstcs!jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU!bob From: bob@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (robert s. richardson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Icon sizes, Workbench hand (was Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist) Message-ID: <12112@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 16 Aug 89 19:18:23 GMT References: <694@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <16334@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: bob@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (robert s. richardson) Organization: Oregon State University - CS - Corvallis Oregon Lines: 29 In article <16334@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> johnhlee@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Vince Lee) writes: > >The cleanest solution I can think of is this: > >1) include an extra flag in the info file CREATED_INTERLACE. Any icons with >this flag would be assumed to be made in (for) interlace (of course.) Thus, >info files would not be any larger, and the fix would be fully backwards >compatible, and current icons would remain unchanged on the default WB. > >2) Include two new preference items: Shrink_icons and Expand_icons. If an >icon was created in your resolution, do nothing! [details deleted] >-Vince This is the best advice I've seen come out of this debate. You have my vote. Is anyone at Commodore following this? If so, whilst I have your attention: The one nit-picky thing that annoys me about the Workbench vs. most other windowing environments is the lack of a BACKGROUND. I know about programs such as Tapestry and such, but they let the background show through the windows, which defeats the purpose in my mind. I like to think of windows as pices of paper on my desktop, not transparencies. Is there any solution out there that will give me a simple patterned or colored background that only shows where there are no windows? I think this would make the WB look SOOOOO much more professional, even to the point of almost (but not quite) making topaz forgivable.