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Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Dear Aqua,

I am sick of you! And globes. I'm sick of globes, too.

Posted at 10:37 AM

Comments

001. Laurel

I dunno, the toaster is kind of cute. I expect it to spring to life and sing me a song.

Posted at 12:34PM on Wednesday, April 23, 2003

002. me

My dear Laurel: I know, I know, it's de rigeur for you publishing types, but perhaps you should consider laying off the two-martini lunch thing!

Posted at 12:47PM on Wednesday, April 23, 2003

003. Jamison

The Toast icon just doesn't look right in the Dock, it looks out of place. Yeah, there are too many globes (I really don't like the Camino icon, I really hope they change it) but it's more then that. I think what ruins most Mac OS X icons is that there is no real color scheme. Windows XP has a specific color scheme that all the OS icons use, and any other application designer can use, while Mac OS X has lots of bluish, but not a conistant blue.

Then there is the perspective. I really like the slight perspective most Apple icons are on, but few other people use it. I think if you are not going to use the Apple Perspective, your icon should be flat. Adobe and Macromedia follow that rule, and their icons mix well in the dock with Apple's and each others.

A third party app, Acquisition uses the same perspecitve for their icon as Apple does, so it looks natural sitting in my dock between iTunes and Safari. (you can see the icon, and download the app, from http://www.acquisitionx.com/

Posted at 06:29PM on Thursday, April 24, 2003

004. Bart

Is the toaster icon and the one to the right of it originally from an OS X program? There's an OS X "inspired" theme in Linux that uses the toaster icon and the default icon for KDE's media player is like the one to the right of it except the KDE icon's hoop is green and the play triangle is less bubbley.

Posted at 04:02AM on Monday, April 28, 2003

005. me

The toaster was designed specifically for Toast, a CD burning application. Its aqua makeover from a few years back caused a minor ripple in the Mac press. I forget who did the redesign for them, though. The one to the right of it is Windoze Media Player... look out, here come the lawyers...

Posted at 08:28AM on Monday, April 28, 2003

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