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From: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench background
Message-ID: <19348@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu>
Date: 29 Aug 89 23:30:06 GMT
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Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
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In article <12112@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> bob@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (robert s. richardson) writes:
: The one nit-picky thing that annoys me about the Workbench vs. most other
: windowing environments is the lack of a BACKGROUND.  I know about programs
: such as Tapestry and such, but they let the background show through the
: windows, which defeats the purpose in my mind.  I like to think of
: windows as pices of paper on my desktop, not transparencies.

That's what I thought, too.  But, what good is a backdrop if it always
has full screen windows in front of it?  That's the case for me,
anyway.  I've found that tapestry is extremely effective if you choose
your colors carefully.  I use black (000) text on a white (fff)
background, and I have taken a series of one-bitplane pictures that
were black on white, and changed them to a very light gray (eee) or
blue (eef) on white.  When one of these is installed with tapestry, you
can see the picture easily enough, but it is so light that it in no way
effects your view of the text (or whatever) in the foreground.  I even
have a directory of about 35 such pictures, and an ARexx script
randomly selects one and displays it with tapestry when I boot.

Try it!  It's a nice touch for when your eye strays from your {cli,c
program,report,etc}.  I currently have the Eta Carinae nebula (I think
it's a nebula) installed; sometimes it's Opus, Oliver Wendel Jones,
a Model-T Ford, an M.C.Escher print, or Whinnie the Pooh :-). 


-- 
Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP