Hello everybody,
Does anyone know who designed the icon Inkscape uses on OS X? (you can see it here: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/?C=M;O=D). Does anyone have it in a vector format? I would like to remove the paintbrush from the icon to make it more consistent with Inkscape on the other platforms, if that's OK with the author. Then I'll use this new icon to create OS X like document icons for SVG, EPS, etc.
What about the plan to change current icon to a Tangoified version? In which case I'll use this one directly.
Thanks.
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
On Apr 28, 2007, at 12:37 AM, jiho wrote:
I would like to remove the paintbrush from the icon to make it more consistent with Inkscape on the other platforms, if that's OK with the author. Then I'll use this new icon to create OS X like document icons for SVG, EPS, etc.
One minor point is that the paintbrush actually makes it compliant with the OS X HIG.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/ OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGIcons/chapter_14_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/ uid/20000967-TPXREF101
"...If appropriate, the icon should also contain a tool that communicates the type of task the application allows the user to accomplish."
On 2007-April-28 , at 10:05 , Jon A. Cruz wrote:
On Apr 28, 2007, at 12:37 AM, jiho wrote:
I would like to remove the paintbrush from the icon to make it more consistent with Inkscape on the other platforms, if that's OK with the author. Then I'll use this new icon to create OS X like document icons for SVG, EPS, etc.
One minor point is that the paintbrush actually makes it compliant with the OS X HIG.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/ OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGIcons/chapter_14_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/ uid/20000967-TPXREF101
"...If appropriate, the icon should also contain a tool that communicates the type of task the application allows the user to accomplish."
OK that's the reason behind the paintbrush then. This is important (I guess your "minor" was ironic). It could be a bit smaller though. Are you the author of the icon? Do you think I could try to modify it a little? Anyway, I'll use this application icon to produce document icons following the HIG (with correct badges) and if the icon ever changes it will be easy to update the document icons.
Cheers,
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
On Apr 28, 2007, at 1:27 AM, jiho wrote:
OK that's the reason behind the paintbrush then. This is important (I guess your "minor" was ironic). It could be a bit smaller though. Are you the author of the icon? Do you think I could try to modify it a little? Anyway, I'll use this application icon to produce document icons following the HIG (with correct badges) and if the icon ever changes it will be easy to update the document icons.
I think "minor" was perhaps not ironic. Having a consistent icon across platforms is also good, so we have two contrasting goals on that icon.
No, I did not make that icon, I was just aware of the reason it is how it is.
For the document icons, the HIG page there shows the "tool" present in the application icon, but not on the document icons.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/ OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGIcons/chapter_14_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/ uid/20000967-TPXREF124
Personally I think its nice. I'd rather see the icon for other platforms match the Mac one. The brush does make it clearer that this is a painting/drawing kind of app.
--bb
On 4/29/07, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote:
On Apr 28, 2007, at 1:27 AM, jiho wrote:
OK that's the reason behind the paintbrush then. This is important (I
guess your "minor" was ironic). It could be a bit smaller though. Are
you the author of the icon? Do you think I could try to modify it a
little? Anyway, I'll use this application icon to produce document
icons following the HIG (with correct badges) and if the icon ever
changes it will be easy to update the document icons. I think "minor" was perhaps not ironic. Having a consistent icon across platforms is also good, so we have two contrasting goals on that icon.
No, I did not make that icon, I was just aware of the reason it is how it is.
For the document icons, the HIG page there shows the "tool" present in the application icon, but not on the document icons.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuid...
On 28/04/2007, at 5:37 PM, jiho wrote:
Does anyone know who designed the icon Inkscape uses on OS X? (you can see it here: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/?C=M;O=D). Does anyone have it in a vector format?
That icon was originally created by someone called "M-Rick" who posted an early Inkscape package attempt to the old Inkscape wiki, according to this mailing list post: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/9887 See also, Wayback Machine snapshot of the old wiki page: http://web.archive.org/web/20050307212813/http://www.inkscape.org/cgi- bin/wiki.pl?CompilingMacOsX
As I recall, there was no accompanying SVG file for the icons. It wouldn't be hard to recreate though, given the standard Inkscape logo SVG file.
I would like to remove the paintbrush from the icon to make it more consistent with Inkscape on the other platforms, if that's OK with the author. Then I'll use this new icon to create OS X like document icons for SVG, EPS, etc.
FWIW, I also personally quite like the paintbrush in the OSX icon, but I'll be happy to go along with general opinion if people want to get rid of it.
Cheers, Michael
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