The only files that workbench pays special attention to are ones ending with. Please note that ending a filename with its file type is not required on the Amiga, so you could name it “jpeg.My Amiga 500” or even just “My Amiga 500”. Thus if you have a picture of your Amiga 500, you could give it a file name of “My Amiga 500.jpeg”, and give it it’s own icon, which would be “My Amiga ”. Workbench treats any file with the file ending in “.info” as the icon for the same file without the. It is important to note that any Disk, Drawer, Trashcan, Tool or Project can have its own icon, and that these can be changed to the users preference using an icon editor. Project icons: These are icons for files.Tool icons: These are the icons for your applications.Trashcan icons: These are much like Drawer icons, only temporarily containing files to be deleted.Drawer icons: hese are functionally equivalent to directories or folders on other systems, allowing other icons to be stored within them.Disk icons: These are for storage mediums, permanent (such as a CD) and temporary (such as the RAM disk).The Amiga Workbench is the file management and desktop environment (hence the name, workbench, as in a bench where your work is while you work on it) that enables the user to start programs using a point-and-click windowing metaphor in order to access files stored on storage mediums, such as floppy disks, hard disks and Compact Disks.Īlong with the ‘Workbench’ metaphor, there are several different types of icons you will find, which have different meanings and usage:
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