| From: | Bert Dorhout |
| Date: | 3 Aug 2000 at 15:43:01 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Vector graphcs for Amiverse gadgets/classes |
At 14:41 03-08-00 +0100, you wrote:
>Hello Claus
>
>On 02-Aug-00, Martin Baute wrote:
>
>> gfx effects are cool when you see them for the first time and they might
>> be fun if you look at them a second time. But this will wear off and these
>> effects get in the way and on your nerves. I agree we need OpenGL on
>> Amiga, but usability is more important than realtime shaded 3D icons which
>> glow when your 3D rendered mouse pointer hits them. just my 2 cents ...
>
>Yep, talk about "bloated waste of ressources". I don�t want to read this
>phrase in any Amiga related review, ever. ;-)
Ja, but still the original argument for doing vector based icons would
enhance readability and flexibility of the interface. As said, this
idea has been brought up before, also on other forums for Gateways
Amiga plans, etc. MacOS X uses it, Next uses it, and SGI uses it too.
Personally I don't mind having smaller gadgets and icons, but in Windows,
the feature to change the gadget size in a kind of 'stepless' way is used
by quite some people, I think. On my SGI account, I played with icon size
until I found a size that suited me most. Hopefully icon design shouldn't
become too hard, though.
(Windows non-power-of-two rescales of bitmapped icons are brrr.. quite ugly).
Bert
---
Bert Dorhout
Subscribe/Unsubscribe: open-request@amiga.com
Amiga FAQ: http://www.amiga.com/faq.html