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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: 1 Jan 1996 00:20:31 GMT
- Organization: Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt
- Message-ID: <1872.6574T68T812@ffi.no>
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- Jim Kelley <jkelly@epix.net> wrote:
- > In article <51493902@heliosamiga.uni-frankfurt.de> "Martin Steigerwald" <ste
- >>
- >> I have NewIcons installed, no need for any extra color locking as
- >> newicon.library does this for me.
- >
- > Do you never get MUI icons along with programs? Lock the colors and they'll
- > look ok.
-
- There's no reason why "MUI icons" should have to use the stupid rotten
- horrible MagicWB pen scheme. But yes, 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").
-
- > There's no reason not to use lockcolors and Newicons. Perhaps locking
- > the colors is bad for you...if so, lets hear why.
-
- The obvious "bad thing" is that it uses four pens! If you're running in
- 256 (or 128, or perhaps 64) colours, that's not necessarily a problem. But
- if you're running Workbench with 32 colours or less (like many people would
- if they're running in a DBL mode, Multiscan, or Super72... or if they're
- stuck with ECS/OCS), losing four of your precious pens FOR NO REAL REASON
- EXCEPT SOME OTHER PEOPLE'S STUPIDITY can be painful.
-
- There's also a pretty good reason not to use NewIcons: It's *S-L-O-W*!!
- Even on a 68040, the bigger icon files, the decompression, the pen
- allocation and the rendering slows down opening windows
- e-n-o-r-m-o-u-s-l-y. Not to *mention* what it feels like on a slower
- machine.
-
- But okay, on a 68060+CV64 Amiga, I guess I can agree that "there's no
- reason not to use lockcolours and Newicons". Problem is, there are only a
- few hundred Amigas like that in the entire world... :-)
-
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