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New mail.app icon?
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I have ALWAYS thought that the Mail icon is plain and uninspired. Yet, it has remained the same since 10.0! With every OS upgrade I have waited for its demise, but nothing! I really think they can make it much, much better; it's so, banal and what not.
Well, you get my drift. Even the USPS has better graphics... and you can't get more T-Rex than the archaic USPS...
I have ALWAYS thought that the Mail icon is plain and uninspired. Yet, it has remained the same since 10.0! With every OS upgrade I have waited for its demise, but nothing! I really think they can make it much, much better; it's so, banal and what not.
Well, you get my drift. Even the USPS has better graphics... and you can't get more T-Rex than the archaic USPS...
Got a problem with it? Just change it then! It's pretty easy with OS X.
There are hundreds of mail app icons out there!
I probably have around 10-15 in my icon collection, but use the default one as I can live with it!
There are hundreds of mail app icons out there!
I probably have around 10-15 in my icon collection, but use the default one as I can live with it!
Balin64 said:
I liked the old one better, think the updated Tiger version is a little 'fat' looking and a bit too blue. I'm anal enough to let this annoy me.
The mail icon may be plain and uninspired, but its certainly clear what the app does from looking at it!
nesbitt_a said:
best places to start for icons are:
www.interfacelift.com
www.iconfactory.com
www.pixelgirlpresents.com
great sites, i prefer interfacelift myself
I like the positioning of the bird/hawk/eagle better on the new one, but wish they'd have kept the old blue background.
I like the Mail icon. What else would you use... an envelope? Now THERE'S banal for you!
And don't even get me started on USPS... IMO they majorly screwed up when they moved away from the logo they used in the '60s - '80s. The "new" one is just f-ugly!
Edit: I can't wait until all the companies are tired of messing with their classic logos to turn them into new 3-D shiny monstrosities and go back to basics: 2-D black and white, maybe 2-color. Am I dreaming? Yeah, probably.
I like the Mail icon. What else would you use... an envelope? Now THERE'S banal for you!
And don't even get me started on USPS... IMO they majorly screwed up when they moved away from the logo they used in the '60s - '80s. The "new" one is just f-ugly!
Edit: I can't wait until all the companies are tired of messing with their classic logos to turn them into new 3-D shiny monstrosities and go back to basics: 2-D black and white, maybe 2-color. Am I dreaming? Yeah, probably.
Awimoway said:
i take it those are icons you have collected over time? would it be possible for you to email them to me?? eonapocalypse3@gmail.com
TIA
jayscheuerle
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Apple PAYS someone to tweak these things so minimally?
I'm all for refinement, but COME ON!! This is either 1) change for change's sake or 2) someone trying to slip in a slightly modified version that nobody else will catch yet will be able to call his own.
Tiger better have NO BUGS if they had the extra resources to have somebody darken a sky and rotate a bird...
I'm all for refinement, but COME ON!! This is either 1) change for change's sake or 2) someone trying to slip in a slightly modified version that nobody else will catch yet will be able to call his own.
Tiger better have NO BUGS if they had the extra resources to have somebody darken a sky and rotate a bird...
jayscheuerle
macrumors 68020
Hemingray said:I can't wait until all the companies are tired of messing with their classic logos to turn them into new 3-D shiny monstrosities and go back to basics: 2-D black and white, maybe 2-color. Am I dreaming? Yeah, probably.
You mean use good design instead of eye-candy? That might actually require them hiring somebody with talent.
jayscheuerle said:
I agree. This "change" is so slight why even bother with it? I mean most of time the icon is going to be smaller when it's on the Dock that you're not going to notice any slight changes like that.
Awimoway, where did you get those icons at? Some of those are really nice
And when you change an apps icon for the Dock, do you just do the ole "copy and paste" in the Get Info window for the app in the Applications Folder? Then, remove the old icon from the dock, then drag 'n drop the new icon on the Dock?
tech4all said:Awimoway, where did you get those icons at? Some of those are really nice
And when you change an apps icon for the Dock, do you just do the ole "copy and paste" in the Get Info window for the app in the Applications Folder? Then, remove the old icon from the dock, then drag 'n drop the new icon on the Dock?
OS X icon collecting used to be a hobby of mine, although I haven't collected much for the last 1 1/2 - 2 years, so I'm sure there's a ton of great mail icons out there that I don't have. I use CandyBar (from iconfactory.com) to make system-wide changes and the Get Info method for individual apps and folders.
The SNOW.E 2 collections are my favorite, and once I found them, I kind of tired of looking for new icons because everything else paled by comparison.
Awimoway said:
the latest candybar also lets you change the application icons from right there, and allows you to change icons that are used within applications as well, its becoming a pretty powerful app
