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Odinn Zero Five · May 21, 2004, 07:37 PM

Originally posted by bOOzo:
I would like to perhaps see a difference in color for different file formats, although that would not work so well with the current black file icon..

I am sure that this is not quite what you ment but I have been using these icons myself (although I cannot for the life of me remember who made the play button icon, I take no credit for that piece of icon art myself). All I did was mix them up with some colorized documents and this is what I have...

The original icon, color shifted for personal use...

http://ip102.cross-creek.dfw.ygnitio...t/picture3.jpg

I used different icons to keep track of what release I am using,

The documents...

http://ip102.cross-creek.dfw.ygnitio...t/picture2.jpg

But I just wanted to throw my two cents in.

Odinn05

mdc · May 21, 2004, 08:39 PM

Originally posted by Jan Van Boghout:
In related news, I'm tinkering around and currently have my VLC video window looking like this:

...

that looks good. care to share how you did it?

The DJ · May 21, 2004, 08:55 PM

Is there a logic in the colors Odinn? or is it just random?

DJ

Odinn Zero Five · May 21, 2004, 09:04 PM

Originally posted by The DJ:
Is there a logic in the colors Odinn? or is it just random?

DJ

A logic above understanding by many....

I wish I could say that there was a pattern but I just kinda hacked it, although I did label .avi as red because the file used to cause so many problems with me untill VLC that I hated it and wanted to spot it a mile away and kill it on sight. But other than that there was no real logic involved I just tried not to use any one color more than another.

Always appreciate your work with VLC which has gotten alot better for me and my older G3 as of late. Thanks.

Jaos · May 21, 2004, 09:31 PM

Odinn your icons look so very close to some icons done by my pal Steve Smith.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/3751838/
Unless you can prove with a .psd or something I believe these are a rip.

Odinn Zero Five · May 21, 2004, 09:33 PM

That's them!!! That's the ones!! They are lovely, and I am thankful for him creating them. Thanks for the head up.

Komisar · May 21, 2004, 09:34 PM

so did you or did you not rip his work cause if you did you will have to get rid of the link for the download i am sorry to say... listern i dont really care but others do

The DJ · May 21, 2004, 09:34 PM

New VLC version availbale btw.

http://www.videolan.org

Odinn Zero Five · May 21, 2004, 09:35 PM

Originally posted by Jaos:
Odinn your icons look so very close to some icons done by my pal Steve Smith.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/3751838/
Unless you can prove with a .psd or something I believe these are a rip.

By the way did you read my full post... " I have been using these icons myself (although I cannot for the life of me remember who made the play button icon, I take no credit for that piece of icon art myself) "

I never took credit for them. Please read first, accuse later.

Odinn Zero Five · May 21, 2004, 09:51 PM

Originally posted by Komisar:
so did you or did you not rip his work cause if you did you will have to get rid of the link for the download i am sorry to say... listern i dont really care but others do

*Rant On*

I thought that this was clear in my first post, and I am not crazy about having to defend myself here but... As I stated before I did not make the original icon. All I did was color shifted the clolors and superimopsed them on my own custom color documents (which if anyone is going to care are the ones Apple made but I color changed them so I also take no credit for them either.) I did not put up any download for the icons at all, just a pic. So I am not sure what download link is being discussed here. I thought we were having a discussion about VLC's icons and I just wanted to show off because bOOzo mentioned custom colors for file types and I had that and just wanted to share. No bad by you Komisar and if I had claimed credit I would ahve expected someone to step in and squash it. And Jaos, I mean no slight to your friend and look forward to seeing more of his work if he continues on.

*Rant Off*

Komisar · May 21, 2004, 10:07 PM

thanks i'm sorry for jumping to pre mature conclusions......

Jaos · May 21, 2004, 10:11 PM

blah I guess I wasen't paying much attention to your post when I read it. When I saw the picture of the colours a little different I thought you were taking credit for them and so my alarm went off. So I misread and blamed things on you that I shouldn't have sorry.

Odinn Zero Five · May 21, 2004, 10:24 PM

It cool guys, your just looking out for the icon artists out there and I can appreciate that. I wish I had the time and equipment to learn to do what they do. Peace.

TheSpaz · May 21, 2004, 10:45 PM

I thought the VLC development was abandoned... hmm.

macnut222 · May 21, 2004, 11:15 PM

The new icons are AWESOME, but there are two missing. The 'PLS' icon, and the 'MPG' icon. Why is that?

I also agree, you should DEFINITELY submit these icons to the VLC team. They need better icons

The DJ · May 22, 2004, 05:14 AM

Originally posted by TheSpaz:
I thought the VLC development was abandoned... hmm.

You should read better. The primary OSX developer (me) doesn't do any OS X developing work anymore. I do more general coding on VLC now, and I keep a small eye on the OS X version. However, no Interface or Audio output work.

The VLC project as a whole will not soon stop at all, since the Windows download is MUCH more popular than the Mac version of the program.

monkeybrain · May 22, 2004, 07:18 AM

Originally posted by Jan Van Boghout:
In related news, I'm tinkering around and currently have my VLC video window looking like this:

How did you do this? I can't see the main window within the .nib at all. I'd really like to have a small border on my window.

Jan Van Boghout · May 22, 2004, 08:09 AM

Originally posted by monkeybrain:
How did you do this? I can't see the main window within the .nib at all. I'd really like to have a small border on my window.

I'm writing a hack that inserts code into VLC

It's similar to a haxie, but it's a great way of experimenting with stuff without having to put it in the official source code. Currently it crashes all apps that load the bundle except VLC, but that's next on my ToDo

When it gets to a usable state I'll put it online.

Horsepoo!!! · May 22, 2004, 08:57 AM

Originally posted by Stradlater:
some of those seem far-fetched...but I guess I won't rule them out

Too far-fetched. Apple would never do this and still call it DVD Player. It would maybe take on another name but DVD Player being able to play all video formats isn't going to happen.

zoe77 · May 22, 2004, 10:19 AM

Originally posted by Jan Van Boghout:
The glow color could be changed, although that would probably be practically invisible.

As for the play symbol, what do you people think about this?

The star of all media players, movie stars� what else

beautiful!! i can't wait for this one!

Can u do a version for the ugly mplayer too??

Komisar · May 22, 2004, 11:08 AM

I was looking at the packaged contents of quiktime.... they are named in numbres so like 135 is mpeg and stuff liek that if someone will take the names and changed them so i can replace quiktime's images i would appreciate it

kwyjiboy · May 22, 2004, 02:52 PM

Originally posted by Stradlater:
It looks very nice. You could always do a silhouette of that cone to appease the VLC authors

I would also suggest having the cone. Without it, this could be an icon for anything.

Jan Van Boghout · May 22, 2004, 02:58 PM

Originally posted by kwyjiboy:
I would also suggest having the cone. Without it, this could be an icon for anything.

The cone looks alright at 128x128, but scale it down in the Dock and it looks terrible.

Komisar · May 22, 2004, 03:07 PM

i also think that a cone would be good make it alot better... and more discrimative

TheSpaz · 09:31 AM

I just finished making this completely in Photoshop (because I suck at 3D apps).

Just got the idea from the icon. Neat!

http://homepage.mac.com/justspaztik/files/ePad.jpg

It looks nowhere near as good as the icon but, hey what can I say for a frist try?

macgyvr64 · May 22, 2004, 06:28 PM

Very nice looking icons Jan - I've replaced my VLC icons with it and they look and work great! It would be awesome if they used them in the actual VLC releases!

akuma-x · May 22, 2004, 10:37 PM

Is there any way we can get a matching set of Quick time and iTunes file type icons from you?
I would love to have all my main media icons look like these. They rock!

Jaey · May 22, 2004, 11:35 PM

Originally posted by akuma-x:
Is there any way we can get a matching set of Quick time and iTunes file type icons from you?
I would love to have all my main media icons look like these. They rock!

I can't see it working very well for the app icons. Maybe, though.

SitHHtiS� · May 23, 2004, 02:48 PM

These are great! Thanks, Jan.

templetalker · May 23, 2004, 03:50 PM

Jan! Awesome, but I can't unpack the file! Is there a glitch? Maybe I'm just crazy! thanx!

Komisar · May 23, 2004, 05:09 PM

Make more icons thats a good one for the first try though it looks nothing like an epad

fireside · May 23, 2004, 08:46 PM

Originally posted by Komisar:
Make more icons thats a good one for the first try though it looks nothing like an epad

thats because an ePad doesn't exist

Caesar2099 · May 23, 2004, 09:00 PM

Originally posted by fireside:
thats because an ePad doesn't exist

I was about to say that. Komisar, think before you post, although you never do that do you?

Komisar · May 23, 2004, 11:22 PM

caesar get ur hand out of ur ass... and start licking it... anyways it was a joke

Caesar2099 · May 24, 2004, 01:37 PM

Originally posted by Komisar:
caesar get ur hand out of ur ass... and start licking it... anyways it was a joke

Hey man that's not cool. Besides, everyone does that, it's the new cool thing...

kwyjiboy · 03:12 PM

Originally posted by Ozzpot:
Does "shank" mean good or bad?

Kids these days...

He was using a slang word accidentally created in this very forum about a week or two ago. Shank-you. It means good.

kwyjiboy · May 24, 2004, 03:07 PM

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Jaey · May 24, 2004, 04:52 PM

Originally posted by fireside:
thats because an ePad doesn't exist

Well darn. Now I want one.

ender2002 · May 24, 2004, 07:02 PM

Cmon: http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...ighlight=shank

SHANK

ryaxnb · May 25, 2004, 01:13 AM

Great! The replacement icon I'm using now is nothing like this.

The DJ · Jul 2, 2004, 02:32 PM

http://sidekick.student.utwente.nl/v...n%20Client.png

This icon is from Bart Biezen.
I really like it. Distinct, yet unobtrusive (something required for a default icon if you ask me)
Only gripe i have so far is that the 'fainted' part makes the cone look very ugly at smaller resolutions.

Mac_Guy15 · Jul 2, 2004, 03:03 PM

Nice. I like that one better too.

ambush · Jul 2, 2004, 04:00 PM

Originally posted by The DJ:
http://sidekick.student.utwente.nl/v...n%20Client.png

This icon is from Bart Biezen.
I really like it. Distinct, yet unobtrusive (something required for a default icon if you ask me)
Only gripe i have so far is that the 'fainted' part makes the cone look very ugly at smaller resolutions.

Yuck... why not just the cone you guys used in the early OS X version?

I just want the cone, damnit, it's the VLC logo, after all!

Stradlater · Jul 2, 2004, 04:13 PM

Originally posted by ambush:
Yuck... why not just the cone you guys used in the early OS X version?

I just want the cone, damnit, it's the VLC logo, after all!

Seconded.

Lancer409 · Jul 2, 2004, 08:09 PM

argh .. sweet icons .. when i saw new .. it hought new .. this has been out a while =) .. post came back up from the archives =) ..

fireside · Jul 2, 2004, 09:15 PM

Originally posted by ambush:
Yuck... why not just the cone you guys used in the early OS X version?

I just want the cone, damnit, it's the VLC logo, after all!

http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/details.php?id=999

monkeybrain · Jul 7, 2004, 09:51 AM

Originally posted by Jan Van Boghout:
I'm writing a hack that inserts code into VLC It's similar to a haxie, but it's a great way of experimenting with stuff without having to put it in the official source code. Currently it crashes all apps that load the bundle except VLC, but that's next on my ToDo When it gets to a usable state I'll put it online.

Any progress on this Jan?

Jan Van Boghout · Jul 7, 2004, 11:35 AM

Originally posted by monkeybrain:
Any progress on this Jan?

I had planned to work more on this to make it far more extensive, but now I only have the bordered player window done. I'll put this online for those who want it, but it's use at own risk, etc. Simply put the unzipped folder in ~/Library/InputManagers/ and the next time VLC is launched, the bundle will patch it. Remember this patches code and does no error checking so it might mess up VLC if something changes radically at some point. Other apps shouldn't be affected because the actual VLC patching code is only inserted when the patch detects it's inside the VLC app. Lots of babbling but just move to the trash if anything is acting up and all trace of it will be gone

Have fun: http://www.macrabbit.com/macnn/SuperVLC.zip

monkeybrain · Jul 7, 2004, 02:25 PM

Cheers Jan, I'll try that as soon as I get back to my Mac.

p.s. I like the sig

monkeybrain · Jul 15, 2004, 04:21 PM

Thought I should report that the SuperVLC mod to put the border on the window works perfectly, no probs at all. Nice work Jan

I encourage others to try