BetterWB - release 1.0

[Cammy]

Well, I couldnt find any source of good 4 colour workbench 3.1 icons, and some of them were borrowed from MagicWB, if you happen to find proper replacements, please let me know, so I fix the offending ones.

Hi Gulliver, I was wondering if you liked the look of the TinyIcons Rebel and I are working on. They're smaller than the standard Workbench icons so take up less room on the disk. Try to ignore the window patterns if you don't like the dithering, but I assure you on a 1084 monitor or TV it looks fine.

http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/5087/2_TinyWorkbench.png

[Cammy]

Is intentional for each drawer icon to have half another drawer underneath it?

Yeah, we wanted to keep the icons all a standard size so that was the way it ended up looking. It sort of fades out.

It's a shame there's no place to make something like an icon set a collaborative effort, I wouldn't mind in a way open sourcing the icons so other people can add to and adjust them.

[Cammy]

We tried both dithering methods, the vertical lines and the regular cross-hatch pattern but the cross-hatch one caused more aliasing issues so we opted not to use it. Anyone can easily change the window patterns though, and in the pack I was going to make I will include both types of patterns and a bunch of others to choose from.

I think it would be great to have some extra help with the fonts. Currently the screen font also has several special characters which are tiny black&white images that I use in the ToolsDaemon menu to give the appearance of an icon before each entry, similar to the way it looks in more modern OSs. The icon font is a ColorFont with a black shadow, needing no extra patches.