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In article <DoEttn.MHA@eskimo.com> drizzit@eskimo.com (G. Baldwin) writes:
> Innovision Concepts Limited (keith@innov.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> : On or around Mon, 11 Mar 96, Bill Near is alledged to have muttered
> : something along the lines of -
>
> : BN> On 10 Mar 1996 18:58:30 GMT, Byron Montgomerie articulated:
> : BN> <> Dave Gentry (dgentry@vlsi4.racal.com) wrote:
> : BN> <> : worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk (Benjamin Hutchings) wrote:
> : BN> <>
> : BN> <> : >>4.  NewIcons patch to be implimented.
> : BN> <>
> : BN> <> : I personally think including MagicWB2.0 preinstalled with
> : BN> <> : all new amigas would greatly increase sales for its aesthetics alone.
> : BN> <>
> : BN> <> I disagree. :)
> : BN>
> : BN> NewIcons rocks all over MagicWB.
>
> : IMHO, NewIcons suck - they look so cheap, tacky, plasticy and toy-like.
>
> : I much prefer MagicWB - makes my Amigas look like 'proper' expensive
> : workstations!
>
> : Just my 2p worth, of course.
>
> : --
> : You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
>
> You should see MagicianWB-alpha.  You might like it.
>
> It was made by a person with a shitload of time (me) who had AGA and
> also the NewIcons.library and was tired of 8 color icons.  The Alpha
> version is fairly messey, but beta (still on my HDD) is a lot better.
> Here is what it is:
>
> MagicWB icons recolored in DPaint with a standard color scheme:
>
> Blue shades for directories
> Cyan shades for projects
> Grey shades for tools
> Orange shades for prefernces
> ect...
>
> Its really nice.  I have it on my WWW (I'm not sure if the author of
> MagicWB would like the idea that his icons got hacked... 8)  But
> alas, its really slow (needs at least an 040 to run smoothly for some
> odd reason).
>
> The point of this?  It shows that MagicWB and NewIcons "can get
> along".  8)
>
> If you want it, look in my WWW page in the "Files/Download" link.
>
> --
>                     Greg Baldwin (drizzit@eskimo.com)
>     Amiga Junkie and User since 1987  Computer Science & DTV Student
>     Commodore64 fan since about 1983  http://www.eskimo.com/~drizzit

--

Well I thing MWB is better than NewIcons because a friend was showing it
to his brother that uses a peecee and he said "wow that looks like windozes".
I was there when he said it and that was all it took for me not to
install it.


 Cory Palmer
 cpalmer@nando.net


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