Icons! w00t!

[grayrest]

I ran across Giovanni's icons for the browser and mailclient a few days
ago. Being impressed with how nifty the icons looked, I decided to
complete the icon pack.

This pack includes Giovanni's original icons (mozilla.ico - overall
browser, messengerWindow.ico - mailnews, main-window.ico - browser,
editorWindow.ico - composer) as well as icons for the address book, the
addressbook card view, the javascript console and debugger, the DOM
Inspector, and the message compose window. This pack also contains
filetype icons based on one of Giovanni's newer designs for gif, html,
jpeg, js, mng, png, svg, xml, xul. There are also icons for generic
mozilla windows, generic mozilla files, and the template for the
filetype icons. Finally, these icons are bundled in an icon library that
I know works with win2k, so I assume will work with other windows
versions and standalone.

For the non-windows people, all the icons I created are available in a
png archive, most are true color png with a few 256 color.

Many thanks to Giovanni for the basic design of all the files. Thanks
also to all the people who work to make moz a great browser.

Get them at: http://www.grayrest.com/moz/icoiconpack.zip - Windows
http://www.grayrest.com/moz/pngiconpack.zip - PNG

To install in Windows, extract to your chrome/icons/default directory.
This will cause mozilla to use the icons for the windows (allows you to
tell apart different mozilla windows). If you wish to use the filetype
icons, you'll have to manually set that up in Windows. To do this
(again, win3k), open up any window, Tools>Folder Options>File Types,
pick the filetype, click advanced, click choose icon.

happy hacking,

grayrest

[Peter Lairo]

You and Giovanni are GOD - thanks so much for the excellent work :9

Now let's see how long mozila.org will fail to simply copy these into
the nightly/milestone builds :(

grayrest wrote:

> Get them at: http://www.grayrest.com/moz/icoiconpack.zip - Windows
> http://www.grayrest.com/moz/pngiconpack.zip - PNG
>
> To install in Windows, extract to your chrome/icons/default directory.

>

> If you wish to use the filetype

> icons, you'll have to manually set that up in Windows. To do this
> (again, win3k), open up any window, Tools>Folder Options>File Types,
> pick the filetype, click advanced, click choose icon.

--

Regards,

Peter Lairo

[Ian Davey]

Peter Lairo wrote:

> You and Giovanni are GOD - thanks so much for the excellent work :9

I just tried them on my NT4 machine at work and they looked awful,
though slightly less bad when loaded in Mozilla than when in viewed in
Explorer. I don't if it is because of the colour depth or what (65536 at
800x600) but on this machine most are barely discernable and scale
poorly on the task bar.

>
> Now let's see how long mozila.org will fail to simply copy these into
> the nightly/milestone builds :(

Is it still those legal issues tying up things like this? One of the
icons looked like it might be the red dinosaur, but I couldn't be sure.

ian.

[Malodushnikh]

I never understood the clamor for these icons. They're okay, but they're
not particularly awesome or anything.

I've seen better.

In article <3C3DB92E...@Lairo.com>, Peter Lairo <Pe...@Lairo.com>
wrote:

[grayrest]

Malodushnikh wrote:

> I never understood the clamor for these icons. They're okay, but they're
> not particularly awesome or anything.
>
> I've seen better.

I agree that some of them aren't fantastic, they're primarily to be able
to tell the different windows apart when I have a bunch of mozilla
windows open. I do like the overall design, though. I would like to see
some examples of "particularly awesome" icons so that I can incorporate
ideas into future stuff I work on.

grayrest

[Ben Ruppel (slate)]

Which set of icons do you like better?

[grayrest]

Ian Davey wrote:

> I just tried them on my NT4 machine at work and they looked awful,
> though slightly less bad when loaded in Mozilla than when in viewed in
> Explorer. I don't if it is because of the colour depth or what (65536 at
> 800x600) but on this machine most are barely discernable and scale
> poorly on the task bar.

The reason they look so bad is probably because you have 16 color icons and that use the windows color palette. This is easy enough to work out, I just include an icon for 16 colors, but I can't test this because all the windows installs that I have access to allow 256 color icons that don't necessarily use the windows palette.

> Is it still those legal issues tying up things like this? One of the
> icons looked like it might be the red dinosaur, but I couldn't be sure.
>
> ian.
>

I just started following moz closely around mid-Oct, what legal issues?

grayrest

[barney]

Malodushnikh wrote:
> I never understood the clamor for these icons.

Me neither. I have yet to see any that really "improved" my mozilla
experience.

>> > Get them at: http://www.grayrest.com/moz/icoiconpack.zip - Windows
>> > http://www.grayrest.com/moz/pngiconpack.zip - PNG

Maybe all the icons I've seen look lousy and unrecognizable because of
my higher-than-average screen resolution - there always seems to be too
much detail crammed onto a tiny canvas. It all ends up a blur. With
this particular set, it's impossible to tell the ones with text on them
apart, except that some have a bigger smudge of white than others.
Kinda defeats the whole purpose of separate icons, me thinks. :-\

[mws]

I don't mean to be a complainer (since I haven't made any, myself) but
there really should be some 48x48 icons.

[Neil]

I demand that grayrest may or may not have written...

> I can't test this because all the windows installs that I have access
> to allow 256 color icons that don't necessarily use the windows palette.

To test, just turn off
[ ] Show icons in all possible colours
in your display properties.