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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: 13 Mar 1996 08:43:39 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- Message-ID: <4i61rr$frt@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
- References: <4hsqcu$t7t@news.internetmci.com> <66095513@jojo.IN-Berlin.DE>
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- In article <66095513@jojo.IN-Berlin.DE>,
- Bernhard Graf <graf@jojo.IN-Berlin.DE> wrote:
- >In article <4hsqcu$t7t@news.internetmci.com>: "Re: What I want from new Workbench"
- >Dave Gentry <dgentry@vlsi4.racal.com> wrote:
- >
- >DG> >>4. NewIcons patch to be implimented.
- >DG>
- >DG> I personally think including MagicWB2.0 preinstalled with
- >DG> all new amigas would greatly increase sales for its aesthetics alone.
- >
- >You didn't get the point.
- >
- >The question is not the icon design, but make icons using always the
- >right (best fitting) colors.
- >
- >The sort of patch that NI uses is really an awfull kludge to my mind.
- >Icons provide a version field (which is currently 1 afair) for further
- >enhancement, so new icons only had to carry another version number for
- >appropriate handling by a new icon.library.
-
- Been there, done that. Icon.library doesn't recognize regular icons if you
- change the version string. It could be made to work for NewIcons, but for
- users not using NewIcons, the icons wouldn't show the old image.
-
- Unless you know a fix for this, it can't be done that way.
-
- Phil
-
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