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- From: "Walter Doerwald" <walter@data.franken.de>
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 23:20:02 +0100
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- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
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- In <Do7Jnn.IGy@cix.compulink.co.uk> "Jolyon Ralph" wrote:
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- > > Or best of all: Combine the technology of NewIcons (or even something
- > > better, more object oriented) with the imagery of MagicWB.
- >
- > Maybe. I don't mind the icons for MagicWb, but I can't stand the colour
- > scheme, and I hate it when PD apps come with MagicWB icons as standard,
- > they look bloody ugly on my system (horrible colours!).
-
- But there are no MagicWB icons without the MagicWB palette. These icons are
- tighly coupled with the palette, slight modifications ruin the carefully
- design dithering/antialiasing. IMHO the MagicWB palette is quite good for
- being only 8 colors. It lacks darker colours, but these we do get with the
- RomIcons palette.
-
- > The nice thing about NewIcons is that, if you don't run NewIcons, the app
- > icons are standard, nice, normal default 2.x style icons, and it doesn't
- > look a total mess on your machine.
-
- The not so nice thing about NewIcons ist that you have 2 images for every
- icon, if you use this feature, but that probably can't be helped.
-
- Bye...
- Walter Doerwald
-