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Well, there you go. By now you've probaly seen it, so I'll
say this- did you like it?
Okay, so I admit that my Workbench isn't actually that
impressive, but it's something which I like rather a lot. The
background and the Hard Disk icons are all taken from pictures from
the amazing Anime series 'Neon Genesis Evangelion' (available from
AD Visison UK as a series of 13 videos). The series is excellent, and
the style is so superb I just had to use it for my Workbench
background. If you've never seen it (or, woe betide, never heard of
it) then shame on you!
You'll find the original image for the background included in
the 'Source' directory, just in case you like it yourself :)
I don't actually use a very sophisticated Workbench, when it
comes down to support programs and suchlike. I use the following
programs, which I have briefly described for convenience.
Visualprefs despite being incredibly unreliable, and
screwing around with Newicons a bit, the
Visualprefs patch really does imrpove the look
of your workbench. I had to persevere with
this a lot to get it to work, but when it
does, it's great.
WBStartup+ Great little tool for controlling your
WB startup. Allows configuration of what to
use, and what task priority to assign. Handy.
MagicMenu A brilliant tool which allows expanded and
'sticky' menu's for ease of use- and they're
much nicer looking than the original menu's.
CycleToMenu A small but helpful tool which gives nice
little menu's rather than ackward cycle
gadgets.
MultiCX A great little tool which is highly
configurable and does the job of loads of
other commoditties- as well as some other
little tricks of it's own.
BBlank Wonderful! A tool which gets rid of those
horrible grey borders on the screen,and gives
nicer black ones.
Toolsdaemon A menu utility which allows user-configurable
menu's and assignment of keys to the new
items. Works well with Magicmenu.
ReKeyIt Another menu utility which allows for
reconfiguration of hotkeys for various menu
items.
ARQ A friendly and nice little pacth which doesn't
do a great deal other than drastically
enchance the System requesters which have a
habit of popping up at innoportune moments.
Hotbar Not too reliable but useful utility which
displays a number of user-configurable (I
love that word. No, really!) icons which
launch various programs. Faster than a menu
and much nicer looking.
FINAL NOTE
My Amiga: 1200 with Typhoon 030/40 and 40Megs of
FastRam. Power B/W hand-held scanner, Phillips
Monitor, Overdrive 560meg HD and 16x IDE
Eyetech CD-rom. Um, thats al folks.
See you soon. Maybe.
Wingnut.