Just to state the obvious. "Apple Guidelines" are just that, guidlines. Not rules. Remember that an icon is an ICON. It needs to be iconic. That's why the most recent icon works the best IMO.
Although the pen details in the current TextMate beta are well done, the icon still lacks personality. Just right now I have 4 other icons in my dock that contains some sort of pad and pen, whereas the lone gear of the most recently submitted icon allows it standout and be retained in memory much more quickly. The saturation and strong contrast are also helpful in this.
Though another thing to think about, when I think about textmate, I don't necessarily think of it in abbreviated form as merely a T, I would think of it more as TM.
On Feb 9, 2005, at 5:39 PM, Chris Ruzin wrote:
Chris Messina wrote:
I think that what we need is a big gear icon with more saturation (like Jon's + Bartelme's combined, but looking more like the KDEsque gear), but designed in accordance with the Apple guidelines (angle, lighting, etc).
Absolutely agree with this wholeheartedly. Ethan's latest icon (large gear) definitely stands out more in the dock, but the angle, lighting and other aspects of it are not OSXish. Fix those things, and I think we would have a definite winner.
-Chris
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