- VisualPrefs now supports bitmap gadgets, something which
I've taken advantage of. ;) 

- I've changed my two big Birdie patterns to include a special
dark, "sunken-in" field for the window title. I've also
stopped using the hi/truecolor shading of the window edges,
since it ate up my memory. To compensate for this, I made
the egdes less visible, narrowing them down to just one pixel,
and giving both bright and dark edges a black colour.
(The highlighted edges to the left/top is a part of the Birdie
pattern). I like the result, many windows look much better
now, more "free". :p

- I'm using the new beta of MagicMenu, that gives a nice
dark shade instead of raster, on hi/truecolor screens.

- Last grab ("Whiskas-Opus2.jpg") also had a golden ball as
a close requester, but I made that happen using Birdie. Not
a very elegant solution, to say the least; so now that
VisualPrefs is able to take care of that job in a great way,
I'm letting it do just that.

- The programs you see in this screengrab, are

* Birdie 1.5 (patterns in window frames)
* Directory Opus Magellan II 
* Dashboard (All my counters and meters), a part of Executive
* MagicMenu 2.23 beta
* SongPlayer 1.52
* STRICQ 0.1173
* VisualPrefs 1.5 beta #2 and FullPalette 40.21
* WebVision 2.0


The SongPlayer design is made in a hurry, but included
since it uses custom (read size-dependant) patterns (I use the
same technique for achieving the smoothed effect (a zoom blur)
on my number in STRICQ.



Take a look at my (sporadically updated) desktop homepage at:

http://members.xoom.com/whi/desktop.html