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- From: peh@ffi.no (Per Espen Hagen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New IPREFS
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 22:57:41 GMT
- Organization: Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt
- Message-ID: <2138.6575T1176T2957@ffi.no>
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- Nick Christie <nick.christie@oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
- > peh@ffi.no (Per Espen Hagen) wrote:
- >>I do get a few programs that *only*
- >>come with MagicWB icons. And those programs have to be *REALLY* good for
- >>me to keep them, after that initial letdown ("oh fuck, another programmer
- >>who doesn't realize that not everyone likes MagicWB").
-
- > I wonder why I bother. I write Amiga software for fun.
- > And then I give it away for free. And you'd throw it out just
- > 'cos I *only* gave it a MagicWB icon and you couldn't be bothered
- > to replace it with one your own...
-
- I know, I was being too harsh there. I sometimes criticize MUI haters for
- flaming MUI programmers... guess I just made myself guilty of being almost
- as rude myself -- against programmers who use MagicWB. Shame on me...
-
- But still -- how high percentage of Amiga users run MagicWB? More than 2%?
- Probably. More than 20%? I *seriously* doubt it. The rest of us -- i.e.,
- the vast majority -- will see a really ugly icon with weird colours, unless
- we have taken steps to make MagicWB icons look reasonably sane.
-
- Don't programmers realize that this isn't the best first impression they
- can give the potential users of their programs? If they don't care; fine.
- But then they won't care that the bad first impression makes some people
- more likely to dump their programs in the trashcan, either.
-
- IMHO, the "default" setup should always use icons that follow normal
- Workbench conventions. Even a blank icon template, or the default SAS/C
- program icon, is better than a weird-looking MagicWB icon.
-
- MagicWB is *NOT* the standard Amiga look (and hopefully never will be).
- And it doesn't mix well with the standard look, either.
-
- Besides -- re my original comment; *any* program I get has to be *REALLY*
- good (or promising) for me to keep it :-) And if it uses MagicWB icons, I
- just Select All and choose my Create Default Icon menu item... so it's not
- /that/ big a deal. Just something I don't like.
-
- --
- Per Espen Hagen // Senior Scientist ╖ Image Processing Group ╖ FFI
- peh@ffi.no ╖ http://www.norconnect.no/~peh/ ╖ Tel. +47 63807653/22327351
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