Now is the perfect time to comment – if you would only comment once (like uh, you loyal US Courts-domain using RSS-based blog reader, please let me know who you are!) in your lifetime here, do it now. I really want to make a good decision on this.
On Macthemes, there are questions for some alternative formats of the icons, apart from a DMG with an ICNS resource slapped on it. PNG, perhaps a set of Windows / Linux desktop environment icons. How should I go about this? Do you guys want other formats than just OS X compatible icon resources? This week, IE is used by about 6,7% of my visitors, where the Windows-using portion of the readers is about 18%, and the Linux / *nix using crowd an estimated 10 to 16%. There is also someone using OS/2 (who are you, you fascinating individual?).
Now let me know. Comment, email (you can find my address on my site) or let me know by Macthemes private message what I should do in the future with my icon formats.
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Thursday, 31. May 2007
You seem focused on the Mac, so why not stay that way?
I’ve looked at some of your icon/graphic work. Much of it (wireshark/praetorian) seems very “glassy”. Remind me more of Vista than Mac OS X.
When I look at my Dock, the majority of my icons are colourful and “shiny”, rather than dark and glassy.
Thursday, 31. May 2007
It’s true that (mostly Praetorian) the icons use some degree of ‘gloss’. I am pushing for a more ‘diffused’ look as you can see in the Preview replacement icon, and Praetorian has different icon states (which complicate the design – but hey, that’s going to be very clear soon with the beta).
Thanks for the input, I have obviously considered multiple formats when I started but as you said, I consider my ‘target audience’ to be Mac users.
Thursday, 31. May 2007
If it’s not to much work to package the icons for other OS’es (which I guess is not), what do you fear?
It can only enlarge the ‘audience’ :)
If ‘glossy’ or ‘macish’ icon themes like nuoveXT or Snowish are successfull for Linux, why shouldn’t people care about your icons?
I don’t think Vista users will be a big audience …they will likely want to go their own ways because they’re not into macish designs at all. They’ve got all they need with Aqua …eer ..I mean Aero ;)
I’d go for multi-platform icons – it can’t hurt :)
Thursday, 9. August 2007
it would be very coo, if you can do multiplatform icons. Would you design icons for Windows as well?