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Open Source Icons for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the mmmm-purty dept.

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.

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  1. Reading between the lines by ObviousGuy · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

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  2. I can't look by andy@petdance.com · · Score: 2
    Those flashing "IF THIS GIF IS FLASHING (WHICH OF COURSE THERE'S NO REASON IT WOULDN'T) THEN YOU ARE A WINNER" banner ads drove me away within seconds.

    Do site owners not consider the effects of the advertising on their image and usability?

    1. Re:I can't look by austad · · Score: 2

      Wow, I have a headache from just reading the front page and seeing those damn flashing banners. You can bet your sweet ass I won't be going back to that site anytime soon.

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  3. Emacs gnu by psxndc · · Score: 2
    I think the Emacs Gnu is great looking. It fits right in with the rest of the apps in the dock. It's good to see others want this kind of quality in even the little things like icons.

    psxndc

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  4. off topic, but has to be said by GutBomb · · Score: 2

    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.

  5. Re:Open Source? by 0x0d0a · · Score: 2

    My thoughts exactly. "Open Source" has become hideously misused on one of the very places where it should be properly used -- Slashdot.

    "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 .png does not cut it.

    "Free Media" makes more sense than "Open Media".

    If it isn't about making the blueprints openly available, then it isn't "open source".

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  6. OK, I'm a total idiot by ellem · · Score: 2

    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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    1. Re:OK, I'm a total idiot by mbbac · · Score: 2, Informative

      If it doesn't paste in there it is because of a bug. The next time you reboot the icon should have been replaced.

      I only have this happen with a very few files.

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