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- From: cpalmer@parsifal.nando.net (Cory Palmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 15:08:55 GMT
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- In article <DoEttn.MHA@eskimo.com> drizzit@eskimo.com (G. Baldwin) writes:
- > Innovision Concepts Limited (keith@innov.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- > : On or around Mon, 11 Mar 96, Bill Near is alledged to have muttered
- > : something along the lines of -
- >
- > : BN> On 10 Mar 1996 18:58:30 GMT, Byron Montgomerie articulated:
- > : BN> <> Dave Gentry (dgentry@vlsi4.racal.com) wrote:
- > : BN> <> : worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk (Benjamin Hutchings) wrote:
- > : BN> <>
- > : BN> <> : >>4. NewIcons patch to be implimented.
- > : BN> <>
- > : BN> <> : I personally think including MagicWB2.0 preinstalled with
- > : BN> <> : all new amigas would greatly increase sales for its aesthetics alone.
- > : BN> <>
- > : BN> <> I disagree. :)
- > : BN>
- > : BN> NewIcons rocks all over MagicWB.
- >
- > : IMHO, NewIcons suck - they look so cheap, tacky, plasticy and toy-like.
- >
- > : I much prefer MagicWB - makes my Amigas look like 'proper' expensive
- > : workstations!
- >
- > : Just my 2p worth, of course.
- >
- > : --
- > : You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
- >
- > You should see MagicianWB-alpha. You might like it.
- >
- > It was made by a person with a shitload of time (me) who had AGA and
- > also the NewIcons.library and was tired of 8 color icons. The Alpha
- > version is fairly messey, but beta (still on my HDD) is a lot better.
- > Here is what it is:
- >
- > MagicWB icons recolored in DPaint with a standard color scheme:
- >
- > Blue shades for directories
- > Cyan shades for projects
- > Grey shades for tools
- > Orange shades for prefernces
- > ect...
- >
- > Its really nice. I have it on my WWW (I'm not sure if the author of
- > MagicWB would like the idea that his icons got hacked... 8) But
- > alas, its really slow (needs at least an 040 to run smoothly for some
- > odd reason).
- >
- > The point of this? It shows that MagicWB and NewIcons "can get
- > along". 8)
- >
- > If you want it, look in my WWW page in the "Files/Download" link.
- >
- > --
- > Greg Baldwin (drizzit@eskimo.com)
- > Amiga Junkie and User since 1987 Computer Science & DTV Student
- > Commodore64 fan since about 1983 http://www.eskimo.com/~drizzit
-
- --
-
- Well I thing MWB is better than NewIcons because a friend was showing it
- to his brother that uses a peecee and he said "wow that looks like windozes".
- I was there when he said it and that was all it took for me not to
- install it.
-
-
- Cory Palmer
- cpalmer@nando.net
-
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