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macOS Icons
- aledthemathguy 6y agoi love the internet
- yeetman21 6y agosoul vs soulless
- Technically 6y agoIcon theming must be the only type that's left after the demise of APE.
- lupinglade 6y agoWhat a step back in terms of icon design on macOS.
- derefr 6y agoI would note that it’s only the app icons that look like this. Big Sur’s icons for technologies (e.g. the PrefPane icons representing system components) are weirder-shaped than ever. Thus, I feel like this change actually helps to differentiate the two. Sort of like how capital letters help differentiate proper nouns in English. You can tell when an app is “mentioning” another app visually (as in a plugin, or an “Open In” action) — without even knowing what the other app is — just because it has “app shape.” I would also point out that this was already something useful in iOS; in the App Store, you can visually differentiate regular apps from iMessage app-plugins by their icon shape. Those iMessage app-plugins are then always “mentioned” in iMessage itself using that same shape.
- airstrike 6y ago> Click on each icon to download it, or download all 0 icons from here.
- ihuman 6y agoIts says that for me at first, then it changes to the correct number after it loads the icons.
- bdcravens 6y agoThat's because it's calculating it on the fly for every request; it's not caching it apparently. I don't understand why something like this wouldn't be server-rendered and cached.
- elrumo 6y agoBecause when I first built it, it was only a site I botched together really quickly for a handful of icons I made. And I haven't had the time to re-make it, which is what I'm doing right now.
- airstrike 6y agoThat is precisely the problem
- gruez 6y agoSPA was a mistake.
- kube-system 6y agoWonder how SPAs will load on Intel after developers get used to building them on M1.
- elrumo 6y agoWhy would it be any different? Isn't the point of web that it doesn't matter what hardware you're on?
- kube-system 6y ago
- cntlzw 6y agoGnome 2 is back
- mmm_grayons 6y agoInteresting project. I'm curious about his mention of server costs in the sponsor request - it looks like he's serving downloads of the icon pack from github, so that shouldn't be a big bandwidth cost. It appears that he's using vercel serverless; the free tier appears quite generous, and the $20 paid tier should be affordable. I understand asking for donations, more just curious why it is expensive to run this. Edit: never mind; seems he's using firebase storage, which could get pricey. Maybe it would make sense to serve over github pages or similar to keep costs down. Or even an el cheapo VPS, which should have more than enough space to store the images and plenty of bandwidth to serve them. Cache the number of icons and run a cronjob every ten minutes that scans the directory and updates the number.
- pedro596 6y agoCheck details here: https://github.com/sponsors/elrumo?o=esc https://github.com/sponsors/elrumo?o=esc It uses Firebase. It really looks very expensive for the functionality and 1.5K monthly visits.. But the developer seems to be fully transparent about costs.
- bdcravens 6y agoBased on information from the developer's website, it looks like they're still a university student, so probably using what is a cool and easy approach; they probably haven't learned a lot about load and scale. That Firebase bill could probably be written off as tuition :-)
- pedro596 6y agoMost probably you're right, it's sad, costs could probably be a lot smaller and contributions could be a small but sweet and deserved compensation for coffee/beer :-)
- elrumo 6y agoI only used Firebase because when I built the site it was only a small scale solution, but now that is has blown I'm looking at alternatives because this is just a waste of everyone's money. And by the way, I only graduated from my master's last month, and I'm not even a computer scientist, I went to design school and have a degree in industrial design, hence my messy code practices. I'm working on them though, so if anyone is willing to give me a hand or some guidance, feel free to do so.
- niklasbuschmann 6y agoI would rather see the opposite, a way to replace the new icons with the old ones.
- airstrike 6y agohttps://github.com/elrumo/macOS_Big_Sur_icons_replacements https://github.com/elrumo/macOS_Big_Sur_icons_replacements
- ship_it 6y agoI have to agree heartily, the MacOS really messed up w/ this.
- duncanc4 6y agoYou can actually if you have a version of the app before it was updated with the new icon. If you right click and show package contents, then copy out the .icns app icon file. Then on the new version of the app, replace the icon as described here: https://www.howtogeek.com/677739/how-to-change-app-file-and-folder-icons-on-mac/ https://www.howtogeek.com/677739/how-to-change-app-file-and-...
- yunruse 6y agoHappy to say I contributed an icon for IDLE, the preinstalled Python editor I can't help but use when toying about with projects and research. It was a fairly easy venture, even though I’ve never touched icon development before.
- the_other 6y agoThe icons for Ableton Live stand out as totally against the UI style of the app itself. I'd rather the icon reflected (ahem) the app, rather than misplaced interpretations of the OS' design choices.
- quyleanh 6y agoDon't know why but this kind icon design make me feel uncomfortable. It likes a mess of material, border, and shadow.
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- mahrain 6y agoI read your comment and thought of the Big Sur QuickTime icon...
- app4soft 6y ago> thought of the Big Sur QuickTime icon... There is big issue with similarity of apps icons/logos which are based on "Q" lettering. [0] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Promotion/issues/14 https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Promotion/issues/14
- maxx1011 6y agoHopefully can discover and contribute some unique icons
- castillar76 6y agoI went through a period of customizing my app icons as part of an overall desktop customization phase. It got exhausting. Much of the time when an app updated itself it would happily overwrite the custom icon with its own, meaning I had to run the equivalent of a cron script to open the custom-icon-installer-app periodically to put things back the way I liked them. Not sure if it's still the case, but at some point several years ago I threw in the towel and let the dock be whatever it was going to be, based on the apps I use. Those who are busy putting these in, has it gotten any better or is it still a constant game of whack-a-mole to keep your customizations?