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- From: vedovatt@u.washington.edu (Philip Vedovatti)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.introduction,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 10:11:48 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- Message-ID: <4jb494$t6u@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
- References: <9603180816.AA001gb@innov.demon.co.uk> <66095611@jojo.IN-Berlin.DE> <9603211200.AA001ha@innov.demon.co.uk> <4j8luv$a5a@valour.pem.cam.ac.uk>
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- In article <4j8luv$a5a@valour.pem.cam.ac.uk>,
- Chris Brown <cbrown@armltd.co.uk> wrote:
- >In article <9603211200.AA001ha@innov.demon.co.uk>,
- >Innovision Concepts Limited <Keith@innov.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- >>
- >>It seems that, for my purposes, NI's function is not overly useful -
- >>I do not really wish to fiddle with the palette, and NI seems not to
- >>make any difference when over non-NI when using backdrops, so I shall
- >>not use it.
- >
- >*shrug* If you only use a few colours in your icons, NewIcons wont
- >geiv you any benefirt other than the one that when something decides
- >to alter your Workbench palette under you, your icons stay the same
- >colours. Personally, I like having thumbnails for my graphic files
- >that are minatures of the real thing, complete with colours that get
- >dithered and mapped to whatever is available on my Workbench.
- >
- >It's reached the point, I feel, where enough people are using NewIcons
- >for people releasing stuff to endear themselves to people by including
- >a NewIcon image. After all, it doesn't alter the original image for
-
- Hear, hear!
-
- >those not runing NewIcons, and there's nothing more annoying than
- >seeing YAPMWBI (yet another purple magic WB icon). I like being able
- >to set my Workbench palette the way I like it, and still have icons
- >display properly.
- >
- >PS, anyone still using NewIcons V1, you could do a lot worse than
- >upgrade to V2, which does dithering amongst other things.
-
- Actually, V1 does dithering. In V2, the dithering is by default, off, so
- you get more exact, crisper appearing icons if you have enough pens
- available on your workbench.
-
- Regards,
-
- Phil (author of AESicons 1 -7 and the NewIcons documentation)
-
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