[TextMate] TextMate first impression (longish)

Justin French justin.french at indent.com.au
Thu Oct 7 14:07:59 UTC 2004


On 07/10/2004, at 9:39 AM, Drew McLellan wrote:

> Sune Foldager wrote:
>
>>> Oh, and one final comment: I *R*E*A*L*L*Y* *H*A*T*E* the icon. It's
>>> butt ugly. Really. Heck, you have John 'Magic' Marstall on the 
>>> mailing
>>> list, I'm pretty sure he could do something about this :))
>> Yes, but this icon is what the budget allowed MacroMates to come up 
>> with... I don't think it's ugly btw, but maybe a little naïve.... I 
>> don't know, I guess there are different opinions :-).
>
> I would gladly donate to a specific "new icon" fund.
>
> I keep my dock quite small, and the icon just looks like a nasty brown 
> blur.

I agree.  I've got my thinking cap on, and have some ideas already... 
will talk to Allan when I next see him online.  I still really like it 
at large sizes, but at small sizes, it's lost in the dock.

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But really, there's more pressing issues than the icon... There's 
nothing stopping you from using your own in the meantime, and 
submitting it as an alternative for Allan to review :)

Justin


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