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- From: peh@norconnect.no (Per Espen Hagen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New IPREFS
- Date: 6 Jan 1996 14:15:24 GMT
- Organization: Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt
- Message-ID: <2494.6579T752T1324@norconnect.no>
- References: <4cj9bo$cch@yakko.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
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- Steven A Baumeister <baumeisa@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu> wrote:
- > Exactly... that's what it's all about. If the programmer likes the look
- > of MWB and you don't -- Replace the friggin' icon, or use a good iconeditor
- > to just hack up the colors for you.
-
- Sure, that's what I do. But the point is that 80% or more of the users
- won't "like" the MagicWB icons, if nothing else because the colours will be
- all wrong. People may not like default icons either, but at least they
- will look the way they are supposed to on the vast majority of systems.
-
- If I get biased against a MWB-only program, it's not only because the icons
- look bad, but because of what I think that tells me about the programmer.
-
- > I use the MWB scheme simply because most things come ready made for it.
-
- Sure, I could have done that too. But that would mean I couldn't utilize
- one of the great new things in OS 3.0+, the ability to set the interface
- colours to whatever I like. If I wanted red, green, or purple active
- window borders, a bluish background colour, and dark gray shadow colour, I
- would be stuck, because MagicWB dictates how all the 8 interface pens
- should be, there are no free pens left to set. It even does it in a very
- *bad* way, because any good scheme would have "similar" colours for pens 0
- and N-1, pens 1 and N-2, etc (to make inverted single-image icons, or
- "inverting" gadgets, look reasonable).
-
- And the fact that some MagicWB icons use 3 planes and others use 8 doesn't
- make it any better -- if you use a higher depth than three planes, you have
- to *copy* the pen colours. My oh my... can it get worse?
-
- But if you're satisfied with the IMHO very bland and washy MagicWB colour
- scheme, and you run your WB in 8 colours (or don't mind losing 4 colours),
- fine.
-
- > I'd
- > hate to have to TRY to hack up all of my backdrops to get them to work with
- > any other scheme. The biggest problem that I have is when I use a pic NOT
- > meant to be a backdrop and then it screws over my icons (I've gotten some
- > pretty INTERESTING looking color schemes! Hehe).
-
- Get OS 3.x. The pens to use for the backdrops are allocated dynamically;
- the backdrop doesn't change locked WB colours. If all pens are locked, the
- backdrop will be automagically remapped to your colour scheme. If the
- colours don't match, it might of course look bad.
-
- --
- 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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