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From: me128-aw@kepler.Berkeley.EDU (me128 student)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: WorkBench 1.3 BUG!
Summary: Don't stretch icons, crunch them
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Date: 18 Dec 88 22:06:05 GMT
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In article <521@jc3b21.UUCP> fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) writes:
>From article <5031@garfield.MUN.EDU>, by joseph@garfield.MUN.EDU (Joseph Dawson):
>> Other things that should be in 1.4 LOADWB.  When you are in 640X400
>> make my ICONS LONGER!  
>
>     Nah, don't make the icons longer.  I like being able to get twice as
>many icons on the side of the screen as I can in non-interlace mode.
>Besides, once you get used to an interlace Workbench screen those long
>skinny icons look funny.  
>
>--Fabbian Dufoe

Naw! don't stretch the icons, make them thinner!  Stretching them negates
any benefit from the interlaced workbench in the first place.  If you 
stretch them, then all your disks have to be re-organized.

Instead, squeeze them horizontally.  I have found that this works well in
WARPbench, especially since amiga icons tend to be large and gaudy anyway.
Of course, the crunching must be intelligent, with some kind of color
precedence, so icons with vertical lines maintain their symmetry.

Crunched icons really make the Workbench "Professional" looking, even
better than some certain Fruity computer we know; REALLY!

-Vincent H. Lee