On Nov 23, 2004, at 20:18, Stuart Wheeler wrote:
If people feel really strongly about having a new icon, then why not launch a TextMate Icon competition with something like a free license or some other incentive as a prize? [...]
Yes, I've considered a competition, but I fear that there wouldn't be enough contributions, especially since the TextMate audience is probably mostly non-graphical persons (sorry if I'm offending someone ;) ) -- so probably best to pay a professional company to make a new icon.
Currently I'm waiting for Lars to create a v2.0 of his icon, which he told me he wanted to do.
Of the alternative icons I've seen, I prefer the one by James Spahr, since it has the braces to symbolize that the editor is for programming (or structured text) -- I think this should somehow be told by the icon.
The cartoon hand is nice and scales better than the current, but it's not closer to Apple's icon guidelines and it lack this telling of the editor being geared toward automation, shell-stuff, etc.
I think if a new icon were to be made, it should better follow the Apple guidelines this time, and it should somehow hint that the editor is a programmers editor -- also there need to be made document icons etc. as well in the same style.