I hope I'm not stepping on anyones toes, but I made these icons today and I figured I'd share...
http://www.overwhelmed.org/pdicons/
The standard PD.app icon is too large for the cmd+tab application switching GUI, so I made some new ones. OS X icons can be up to 128x128 pixels, but I've noticed most restrict themselves to a smaller area and these icons take this into account.
Anthony
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On May 19, 2005, at 11:59 PM, Anthony Saunders wrote:
I hope I'm not stepping on anyones toes, but I made these icons today
and I figured I'd share...http://www.overwhelmed.org/pdicons/
The standard PD.app icon is too large for the cmd+tab application
switching GUI, so I made some new ones. OS X icons can be up to
128x128 pixels, but I've noticed most restrict themselves to a smaller
area and these icons take this into account.
Could you send me a screenshot of this? The current icon works fine
for me in cmd-tab, the Dock, etc. on 10.2 and 10.3
.hc
Anthony
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Could you send me a screenshot of this? The current icon works fine for me in cmd-tab, the Dock, etc. on 10.2 and 10.3
Sure thing, I'll have to go grab the icon somewhere; it's not that it doesn't "work", but that it overlaps slightly with the white edge of the cmd-tab. It's also very large and very flat and jumps off the screen when seen in a row with more standard OS X icons. Not that this gets in the way of using the app, but I figured I'd take a crack at making the icon more OS X-like.
Anthony
I just attempted to "Grab" a screenshot of this, but apparently you can't grab a screen of the cmd-tab image.
the pd icon as included with pd on sourceforge is hard-left aligned, and appears to use 127 of a possible 128 pixels in height. The corner at the top and bottom left overlap with the white border of cmd-tab by one pixel or so. This is on a current iBook, running 10.3.9 at 1024x768.
the hard left align and the vertical height of the icon are it's only significant problems. It disrupts the horizontal visual distribution of icons in the dock, and it calls great attention to itself when cmd-tab-ing, simply because it takes up so much screen space compared to a standard set of OS X apps like safari, mail, soundhack, finder, etc. And finally, the font used for the "Pd" letters is heavily pixelated, which also stands out.
Obviously, these aesthetic concerns are not a big deal in terms of getting PD to work, but it's a little bit of polish that could be applied and make it feel more native.
I'd be happy to get some input on what people think about this set and take it into account for later versions...
Anthony
On May 20, 2005, at 1:00 PM, Anthony Saunders wrote:
Could you send me a screenshot of this? The current icon works fine for me in cmd-tab, the Dock, etc. on 10.2 and 10.3
Sure thing, I'll have to go grab the icon somewhere; it's not that it doesn't "work", but that it overlaps slightly with the white edge of the cmd-tab. It's also very large and very flat and jumps off the screen when seen in a row with more standard OS X icons. Not that this gets in the way of using the app, but I figured I'd take a crack at making the icon more OS X-like.
Anthony
Hey Anthony,
I'm really not crazy about the painterly background here. Also I'm very partial to non-square icons. :)
I have a proposal, How about my spigot icon:
https://www.puredata.org/Members/bbogart/pd_logo/view
behind the PD object and bang instead of the painterly box? I think that would look really slick.
What do you think?
I choose a spigot because I think it sums up the PD concept completely, Data is water and that gets controlled by objects that change how water flows. This is how I teach PD.
B>
Anthony Saunders wrote:
I hope I'm not stepping on anyones toes, but I made these icons today and I figured I'd share...
http://www.overwhelmed.org/pdicons/
The standard PD.app icon is too large for the cmd+tab application switching GUI, so I made some new ones. OS X icons can be up to 128x128 pixels, but I've noticed most restrict themselves to a smaller area and these icons take this into account.
Anthony
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Funny thing is, I was using a similar metaphor for the icon design.
at least in three of them where the art is aligned this way, there are straight lines going "into" the PD box and warped patterns above it.
Personally, I like the flat-but-not-flat colorful Aqua looking icons rather than the spigot, but it's all a matter of preference. It also maintains a certain visual line when I see it in a row with SoundHack, Safari, Mail.app, Finder, and Textwrangler, for example.
Anthony
On May 20, 2005, at 12:46 PM, B. Bogart wrote:
Hey Anthony,
I'm really not crazy about the painterly background here. Also I'm very partial to non-square icons. :)
I have a proposal, How about my spigot icon:
https://www.puredata.org/Members/bbogart/pd_logo/view
behind the PD object and bang instead of the painterly box? I think that would look really slick.
What do you think?
I choose a spigot because I think it sums up the PD concept completely, Data is water and that gets controlled by objects that change how water flows. This is how I teach PD.
B>
Anthony Saunders wrote:
I hope I'm not stepping on anyones toes, but I made these icons today and I figured I'd share...
http://www.overwhelmed.org/pdicons/
The standard PD.app icon is too large for the cmd+tab application switching GUI, so I made some new ones. OS X icons can be up to 128x128 pixels, but I've noticed most restrict themselves to a smaller area and these icons take this into account.
Anthony
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