#picotron programs do not need to cooperate with the system palette if they don't want to. Look at this beautiful mess.
@zep do I sense some kind of Amiga Workbench inspiration here?

@fsouchu The second screen sliding in from the top? It's just a menu / file picker :)

(but I guess you could put an application up there if you really wanted to)

@zep and that appears to be functional enough - ship it :)

@zep

... I swear I just saw you pull the screen down.

Does this mean Picotron has a copper?

@Felice ha, I didn't mean to show that yet, but noticed it was visible because of the borked colour table. It's just the window manager compositing a kind of slide-out toolbar (will have app icons, file picker etc).
cc: @fsouchu
@zep this gives me such good feels for my old Amiga games :)