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[Dratatoo]

The only thing I don't like about amule is  the application icon. Its not cut out properly and thus doesn't quite fit compared to the polished appearance of other osx apps.

I decided to create a new icon because I couldn't find a worthwile replacement on the net which isn't copied from the same low res emule jpg logo.

The work is not original, I used a emule wallpaper as base, which seems to be the only source which displays a high res 'mule mascot.

http://www.winfuture-forum.de/lofiversion/index.php/t10075.html

I hope you like it. Suggestions are always welcome.

Preview:



Download:

http://520050016814-0001.bei.t-online.de/amule.zip

[ken]

Thanks for your input.    I like the way you've cleaned up the mask and added a nice shadow.

Unfortunately, I don't know the copyright/licensing situation with your source image.  So, I don't know if we can use it in aMule.

Can you use the icon from aMule itself as your source and do the same thing?  It's inside the aMule.app package under Contents/Resources/amule.icns.

[reeky]

don't forget these -> http://forum.amule.org/thread.php?threadid=5861
i think they looks pretty well (even thou an improvement could be make every icon as a perfect square)

bye


edit: i noticed that the package has been updated on kdelook... and now the icons look different ...what i wrote is referred to the attached package on amule forum  :]

[Dratatoo]

Ok, I cleaned up the original icon. Although it is not as clean as the one above, because its hard to work with a 128x128 picture as source. With a high res picture you have much more control over certain aspects like transparency.

Preview:



Download:

http://520050016814-0001.bei.t-online.de/amuleoriginal.zip

Another question: Where do the icons in emule come from. I would like to clean up the icons in the main menu bar. It seems they originate from the crystal icon set which is very popular in X11 window manager like KDE.

[ken]

Thanks!    I'll consider updating the aMule icon with this.

[Dratatoo]

Thanks for including the icon. But one question is still unanswered (if you don't mind):

Another question: Where do the icons in emule come from? I would like to clean up the icons in the main menu bar. It seems they originate from the crystal icon set which is very popular in window manager like KDE.

I really would like to mess with those. But I don't know what size they have and in which format they are stored. Looking around the contents of the amule application didn't brought any results.

As a sidenode: I am unable to download amule osx from the server mentioned in the binary thread. Fortunally there is a (unmentioned) mirror at sourceforge.net

[dummy00001]

Originally posted by Dratatoo
I really would like to mess with those. But I don't know what size they have and in which format they are stored. Looking around the contents of the amule application didn't brought any results.

As a sidenode: I am unable to download amule osx from the server mentioned in the binary thread. Fortunally there is a (unmentioned) mirror at sourceforge.net

1. /Application/aMule.app/Contents/Resources/amule.icns
   icns is the raster file format of Apple used  for icons. If you have recent Mac, check developer packages included with OS. There in Utilities you will find so called "Icon Composer" application which can be used to create icns.
   icns is compromised of 4 images with resolutions: 16x16, 32x32, 48x48 & 128x128. You can manually optimize image for every of this resolutions. Mac OS X will do its best to scale image to any other size automatically choosing the baset possible match.
   Or alternatively to test icon appearance, just copy its content to clipboard, create some temp folder, right click on it, select "Get Info", click in properties window on icon to select it and press Cmd-V. This will change icon for folder - so you will be able to see icon in action.  It is bit faster than creating real icon and putting it in application.

2. I can send you /official/ 2.0.0 Mac binary, Kry had posted - 3.5MB. Just drop me your e-mail.

[Dratatoo]

I already know about the icns format. I just want to edit the icons found in the main menu of emule. (Example: the "disconnect from server icon" etc.) A icns resource doesn't exist for these icons within the amule app folder.

[m2kio]

hi,

Originally posted by Dratatoo
I already know about the icns format. I just want to edit the icons found in the main menu of emule. (Example: the "disconnect from server icon" etc.) A icns resource doesn't exist for these icons within the amule app folder.

almost all images are compiled into the binary. this is done by including XPM images in the source.

some images are in individual files "*.xpm" and a whole bunch in "src/muuli_wdr.cpp"
NOTE: the inlined xpm code should be extracted into separate .xpm files!

you can dl one of the daily cvs snapshots and then grep in the amule source folder for "XPM":

bash> grep XPM */*
bash> grep XPM */*/*

that should show most of them. Maybe one of the devs can name more files.

I don't know exactly about technical limitations of XPM images or whether it is possible to replace them with GIF or PNG files. But that would be messy for non-OSX users, because they don't know about application bundles.  

... m2kio !

[Kry]

I will take those images out some day... or... maybe not. Who knows

[dummy00001]

Originally posted by Kry
I will take those images out some day... or... maybe not. Who knows

In your place I'd better take make them .png/whatever.
Or later you will have problems finding an artist willing to fix that ugliness.