A couple more Workbench woes

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kolla
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A couple more Workbench woes

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Old cruft that's been bothering me since forever with Workbench...

With Workbench as windows, the screen background (not window, not workbench) image actually fills the screen, and the screenbar is drawn on top of it - good!
With Workbench as backdrop, the Workbench (not screen, not window) background image is moved down to give space for the screenbar - awkward and annoying!

An easy way to illustrate this is to turn screenbar visibility off and on again in Workbench prefs while Workbench is in "backdrop mode", one can see the background image move up and down. Could this be fixed so that background image stays on same location regardless of whether screenbar visibility is turned off or on, and not moved down and potentially cut off at the bottom?

Second issue in regards to background images - why do the image files used for background remain "locked"? I don't see any good reason why the files should remain locked once the files have been read and the bitmaps rendered to screen, on the contrary, it would be great if they were _not_ locked, so that they easily can be replaced and make it really simple to change backgrounds from scripts (copy over image file and 'setdate env:sys/wbpattern.prefs')
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