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From: johnhlee@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Vince Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist
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Date: 9 Aug 89 22:03:26 GMT
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In article <1989Aug8.220028.13827@nc386.uucp> davewt@nc386.UUCP (David Wright) writes:
>In article <16025@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> johnhlee@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Vince Lee) writes:
>>space (I've tried).  Since Amiga Icons are too big to begin with anyway,
>
>	Icons on the Amiga are not hard coded. If you think that the icons
			       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>are too big, there are several PD programs that let you edit them and
>some have a "shrink" option built in. There is nothing stopping you from 
>completely replacing the icons with 2 pixel wide lines, if that is

No SH*T.

I haven't been programming my Amiga for 3 years while failing to realize that
I could edit my icons!  When I first got my machine, IconEd was one of the 
two pieces of software I had (the other was preferences).

What I want to see is auto-shrinking of icons in interlace so I don't have
to edit EVERY GODDAMN ICON on EVERY DISK that I get!

One of the biggest problems with the Amiga is that most of the developers 
I know have absolutely NO artistic talent.  The Amiga Topaz font and 
"insert workbench" hand are constant painful reminders of this.  Although
the Amiga is a great machine, what most people see is the incredibly 
cheezy-looking workbench with its C64-looking icons.  When they compare
this with the sleek, professional-looking Mac with its sharp, crisp text
and icons, it's no wonder Amiga's penetration into the business market is
near nill.

Editting my own icons won't change the Amiga's appearance for everyone else.
Interlace mode, even with a flicker-fixer looks stupid because everything is
wide and flat.  What I'm saying is this:  I don't wan't shrinking of icons
just to make my own workbench look better.  That misses the point completely.
I think shrinking of icons would make the Amiga look more professional to 
people considering purchasing an Amiga instead of a Mac or Clone, and that
would make it all worthwhile.


>				Dave

-Vince