[TxMt] Textmate Icon proposal - How About a Competition?

[Justin French]

>> I don't know if I'm allowed to say so, but justin did a mockup of a 
>> single key with a gear on it (as the glyph). And I do like the 
>> symbolic value of this (i.e. key = type text, gear = automation).

Ok, well I was going to do a "real" version before putting it out 
there, but since Allan blabbed, I might as well post the mock-up a 
knocked up for him last night, and see if people like the direction I'm 
headed in...


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Like I said, this was a quick hack, and a lot can/will change.

I also had a go at the "mate"/robot... chopped off the antenna, bumbed 
the contrast and colour balance around for a bit, and increased his 
size to fill the 128px area.  Allan and I have chatted and have pretty 
much ruled out the typewriter and/or robot from the next icon ("clean 
slate"), but here it was anyway, warts n all:

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I know there was plenty of discussion about color too... I originally 
thought that it'd be a great idea to go for the same blue that most 
people were used to with BBEdit... TM may have replaced BB on my dock, 
but I still go instinctively down to the dock looking for the blue blob 
that used to be BBEdit.

On the other hand, there's shitloads of blue on my dock already 
(safari, mail, finder, ichat, conversation, msn, iterm, indesign, etc.


Justin