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From: jgray@pilchuck.UUCP (Jerrold )
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Cosmetic changes to Workbench
Message-ID: <341@pilchuck.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-May-86 16:17:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: pilchuck.341
Posted: Tue May 13 16:17:57 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 16-May-86 06:44:22 EDT
References: <5363@alice.uUCp> <30@intelca.UUCP> <958@masscomp.UUCP>
Organization: Data I/O Corp., Redmond, WA
Lines: 26
Keywords: Amiga, Workbench, colors, shadows
Summary: light humored addition to window improvement discussion

In article <958@masscomp.UUCP>, garyo@masscomp.UUCP (Gary Oberbrunner) writes:
> In article <30@intelca.UUCP> cem@intelca.UUCP writes:
> >...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.
>
> While we're at it, why oh WHY don't the windows on the Workbench (and all
> windows, in fact) have drop shadows?  That one little item adds loads of visual
> clarity, and makes window interaction much clearer (this is the main reason
> why Mac windows look SO MUCH better than Intuition windows).  It's 

Actually I'd like to see curtains, shutters and perhaps a flower box.

Venetian blinds are out though.   So cold. So Impersonal.


				Jerrold L. Gray
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