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endaka
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25-Oct-2007 22:47:07#1 Layout icons for Mac

I decided I had enough of the rather hideous default icon that represented Cmk on my Mac and made a replacement. It's not gorgeous. In fact, it's very strongly inspired by the Dvorak icon, which means it's quite ugly. However, it also means that it's very easy to add a little national flag to it (to show which international version you're using) which makes it almost pretty:

Without the flag it's somewhat less exciting:

In any case both were very easy to make - I used a great, free application called Pixen and IconComposer available as part of Apple Dev Tools - and I presume are very easy to modify. To install, just put the .icns files where you put Colemak.keylayout.

You can get it all here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/65413379/Co … s.zip.html
or here:
http://files-upload.com/files/583395/Co … 0icons.zip

Shai- I think you should considering adding an icon (not necessarily this one!) to the standard distribution!

Edit: Shamelessly ripped off vilem's enhancement - rounded edges which look like this:

You can get this version here:
http://files-upload.com/files/584241/Co … unded).zip
(You might need to copy and paste the link into your browser)

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vilem
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26-Oct-2007 17:49:30#2 Re: Layout icons for Mac

Nice job!
I tried something similar ages ago, but I couldn't find IconComposer.. Now I have a mac since 2 days (12" PowerBook G4) and I'd love to have a go at this myself. Where can I find IconComposer?
Oh, and, the file doesn't seem to be able to download for me. Weird, I will try to again later.

Ah, I have to download the apps from apple, eh?

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26-Oct-2007 18:37:02#3 Re: Layout icons for Mac

I think it looks nice, especially with the flag. Simple and effective.

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26-Oct-2007 22:54:43#4 Re: Layout icons for Mac

I put in a new download link in the first post. Hopefully that will work better.

Congratulations for your Mac vilem. IconComposer should be in Macintosh HD/Developer/Applications/Utilities, provided you installed Developer Tools. You can download them from the Apple website. Please do share your creations :)

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26-Oct-2007 23:44:19#5 Re: Layout icons for Mac

new link still doesn't work for me.

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26-Oct-2007 23:51:36#6 Re: Layout icons for Mac

OK added another one, hope that will work...

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27-Oct-2007 10:15:02#7 Re: Layout icons for Mac

Are you using leopard by the way? I was a bit disappointed by it... Nothing revolutionary, as Walt Mossberg said: "Leopard is Evolution, not Revolution". They could at least have added cmk support out of the box. Anyway, thanks endaka, for making our menu bars a whole lot more sexy!

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27-Oct-2007 11:50:46#8 Re: Layout icons for Mac

I just made a German cmk. I'll upload the file later on, but what should be of interest here is the icon:

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endaka
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27-Oct-2007 13:45:11#9 Re: Layout icons for Mac

Cool vilem, cheers for that. You rounded the edges of your German icon - I did the same to the first Cmk icon I had made and uploaded an additional version to the first post. I think it looks much better!

Yep I'm using Leopard--I quite like it in fact; I wasn't expecting anything revolutionary and Leopard is faster (!) and has a lot of pleasant surprises lurking here and there. Unpleasant surprises include Safari crashing every time I want to upload a file (!) which I hope will be fixed soon.

Vilem - your icons for "show character palette" look different to mine, did you do anything to them or is my system behaving funny after its numerous upgrades?

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27-Oct-2007 15:41:38#10 Re: Layout icons for Mac

endaka said:

Vilem - your icons for "show character palette" look different to mine, did you do anything to them or is my system behaving funny after its numerous upgrades?

I'm still using panther at the moment, it has different icons for that. ;) In fact panther was the newest version of OS X when I started using it. My laptop is really quite old (867 MHz G4) so I can't decide wether to upgrade to leopard or 'just' tiger. I'll maybe try installing leopard and see how it goes, but if I still can't play back DVDs with future updates, I'll stick with tiger, at least on my 12" PB.

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