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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?
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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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
My thoughts exactly. "Open Source" has become hideously misused on one of the very places where it should be properly used -- Slashdot.
.png does not cut it.
"Open Source" could reasonably be used to refer to an image, I suppose, if it was in some sort of format that also stored a fully log of everything done to produce the image. Newer versions of Photoshop, for example, do this. A simple
"Free Media" makes more sense than "Open Media".
If it isn't about making the blueprints openly available, then it isn't "open source".
May we never see th
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.
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