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Open Source Icons for Mac OS X
Jeff Stys writes "Xicons.com has launched a new Open Source section of its website. The idea is to aid the Open Source software community by providing high-quality sets of toolbar icons and other user interface graphics for their Open Source programs." Many of them are very nice, indeed, and are specifically geared for use in Mac OS X.
We are currently soliciting toolbar and other interface icons from the design community. This will enable developers to concentrate on making great software by offloading the creation of interface elements to skilled artists.
Or...
We are fed up with the amateur hour entertainment provided by the Gnome and KDE crews. We've taken it upon ourselves to gather up all the crap out there and find those few nuggets of gold buried within lumps of clay.
I have been pwned because my
Is a way to edit OSX .icns files in Gimp. Or at least convert them to PNG. There are some spectacular icons for those of us who run KDE or Gnome. I currently use several icons from xicons on my KDE3 desktop, unfortunately, to get them I had to grab OSX screenshots and cookie-cutter them out.
Do site owners not consider the effects of the advertising on their image and usability?
you can always tell who the good mac develpoers are because they have an attention to detail about things like icons, most others dont. if you dont believe me look at some of the skins that are out for winamp. i hope these same "designers" do not contribute to the opensource icon collection.
.. because very often OpenSource Software is much more powerfull than any other (e.g. Mozilla[I don't agree but many n00bs told me so ;)]) but the interface is **** or it just doesn't look nice,..
this might help...
i did a quick look for icons but didnt find any, when they're drop down box failed i'd had enough of the flashing banners, its to bad that they're site will probly fail because of this
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Use privoxy
...) and is easy to configure (i.e. requires no configuration for about 95% of all sites) via a slick browser based interface.
http://www.privoxy.org/
Works great in MOX (and Linux and Windows and
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From the context, I am assuming "MOX" is supposed to mean "Mac OS X". I've seen "OS/X" and "Mac X" and "System X.1" and such... but none of them are as wrong and hard to understand as "MOX".
Just write OSX-- same number of keystrokes if that's your concern.
People that run web sites do not normally create or even choose the banners they have on the pages. they aspply to be members of "ad networks", companies that have a pool of ads that you can display on your site (you do not choose. it serves up the ones it wants to show). In turn the webmaster gets paid by the click/impression... The webmaster has 2 choices. Run the annoying ads, or pay for hosting out of his pocket instead of having his ad-money pay for it.
Is it too much to simply resize the window a bit (if you have to) and scroll down a bit? jeez. And if you get a headache from a tiny banner, you should see a doctor about it, not bitch about it on slashdot.
Pretty icons... but where's the PNG? Ugh. If they're so supportive of Open Source, why do they make it so difficult to use these icons in Linux? Pfft.
Learn to Play Go
And where would that source be hidden?
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How do I change my Icons in OS X?
I have been clicking Show Info of the ico I want then Edit->Copy
Then I got to the program I wan the copied Icon to represent.
I click Show Info, and several variations of Paste.
It never works.
Help me.
This
Exactly. Because they are not supportive of OS/FS. Sure, they take the software and use it, but they aren't (yet?) willing to give back by using open formats, and copyleft licenses.
[about: http://xicons.macnn.com/opensource.php ]
Hi,
Since Mac OS X, Mac users can and do enjoy all the offerings of the OSS and FS world.
But this FS community is not based on taking, but on giving.
The community of Mac users should realize that there is no such thing as free lunch, and start to give back to the FS community.
One part of that process should be to offer designs in non-proprietary format, under copyleft licenses [1], especially if those designs are OSS/FS related, which indicates that the designers themselves enjoy the offerings of the OSS/FS community.
Please encourage the designers of Mac OS X Open ource icons on your site to provide the source with the icons (.ps etc), to provide the images in PNG, and to evaluate and use copyleft licenses for the icons.
The icon artists themselves seem to be interested in Free Software, probably because they can now use most of it, and probably do so. But FS is not about taking; it's about giving. If they would understand that, they would offer their FS related designs with source, in open non-proprietary format alternatives such as PNG, and under copyleft licenses. This also would enable users on other OSes such as Linux to use these FS icons.
I'm highly interested in your views, and I'm looking forward to your reply.
Tobi
[1] http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html