Short: Golden appearace for Workbench and Directory Opus 5
Author: mexico@ptt.yu (Miki)
Uploader: mexico ptt yu (Miki)
Type: util/wb
Architecture: m68k-amigaos
This Workbench style was inspired by - gold. It makes the
world go around , it is in the Swiss banks , even Your mother
has it , but now You can enjoy in its warm glow on your Amiga.
Here are included the preferences for some programs which
change the look and feel of Workbench: VisualPrefs , Birdie ,
MagicMenu and TitleShadow. Their latest versions can be found
on Aminet.
Requirements: High colour Workbench
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+ all the programs listed above
Recommended: OS 3.5
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1024 x 768 screenmode or higher
FullPalette ( also on Aminet )
13 point screen font
Installation: First you have to install all these programs
------------ like it says in their manuals and then change
their preferences.
Usage :
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Visual Prefs : This preferences are for VP 1.5 or higher. Copy the
directory Gold where ever you want , start GUI of
VisualPrefs , open Gold/Gold.pre , and under
System/Bitmaps choose Gold. Then save the prefs.
NOTE: The gadgets may look weird in GUI prefs and
the first time when you save the prefs. That's
because most gadgets are drawn to use ONLY with
Birdie and included textures. However, when you
see how it looks you won't regret it.
NOTE 2: This Gold set is loosely based on VP-Aqua set
by Martin Bren. I emailed him and asked him
for a promission to upload this changed set ,
but as he did not answer me for some time
I assume that it's OK to upload this to Aminet
as long as I mention that my VP set is based on
Mr. Bren's.
Birdie : Open Birdie prefs ( bprefs.lha , also on Aminet) , load my
Birdie prefs , for Active window pattern choose
ActiveWindow.png and in pattern list choose InactiveWindow.png.
Do NOT add any more patterns to pattern list because this set
is designed for only one pattern.
MagicMenu: This prefs file is for MagicMenu 2.35 (www.magicmenu.de).
Open MMPrefs ,load MM_GoldBlue.prefs ,and then save the prefs.
This prefs file does not really belong to this Gold set , but
it looks very nice so you might want to check it out.
TitleShadow: Copy my titleshadow.prefs to ENV: and ENVARC: and then load
TitleShadowPrefs and save the prefs agin. Here I've added
the brown shadow to the selected window title so now it
looks a bit more shiny.
NOTE: In order this to work you'll have to install
Full Palette first. After the installation copy
the included FullPalette.prefs to ENV:Sys and ENVARC:Sys
and then reboot your Amiga.
DOpus 5: For DOpus 5 I included a 32 color OS 3.5 Lister icon which you should copy
to DOpus5:Icons. The icon I included represents a lowres image of my DOpus
lister. I did a snap of desktop, loaded it into PPaint , cropped the image,
did some make-up and loaded a brush into IconEdit. It was a 5 minute work.
You should do the same to make your icon because it's no hassle and it
looks very effective!
Workbench: I included a desktop picture in golden style for WB and two textures
for WB windows ( I prefer a darker one and white text colour ). This
pictures really require OS 3.5 ( because of its picture.datatype
which does dithering on highcolour screens ) or true colour workbench.
I wanted to keep this archive as short as possible , so I uploaded the snapshot
of my WB separately as pix/wb/GoldWB.jpg.
Oh , I know, the window buttons remind of the VIVA logo. I hope no one will mind...
For any comments write to Miki
mexico@ptt.yu