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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)
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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!
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>-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.