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Subject: Re: Cosmetic changes to Workbench
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Date: Fri, 2-May-86 11:30:44 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  2 11:30:44 1986
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Dan Rosenberg writes :
> Just one, small request for release 1.3:
> 
> Things would look SO much better if we had windows a different color
> from the rest of the desktop - and the same goesw for pulldown menus.
> 
> This teeny little cosmetic change could go a long way to making the
> desktop less confusing. Better yet, why not hav the active window a 
> nice, bright color - and the background windows a darker shade....
> 
> Really,
> -- 

Since 1.2 isn't released yet you should probably address it as a suggestion
for 1.2, you are kinda stuck though since workbench is a 2 bit screen.
(Nothing personal Workbench) You can only display 4 colors. So your
suggestion needs 1 color for the background, 1 for the inactive windows,
1 for the active window, 1 for the pull down menus (you could probably
cheat here and use the active window color), 1 for the text, and one 
for highlighted text. Thats 6 colors. Going to a 3 bit window would give
you 8 colors but suddenly you are starting to get into the region where
the blitter/copper just may start stealing a cycle or two. Which would 
slow you down a bit. This problem would be aggravated if you had your
workbench set up as an interlaced 640 X 400 screen. An interesting problem
to be sure. 

--Chuck


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