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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+46You went from a funny comment to a guilt trip within a split second there. :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28Good thing we aren't talking about its mascots.... damn you paper clip!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+33Dear Microsoft: Please stop making your icons this way. They're frickin' hideous, and this is coming from a Windows fan.
- mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2416 x 16 ought to be enough for anybody.
- tgumbel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20They also make their icons with help from The IconFactory.
http://iconfactory.com/design/detail/windows_xp - inkubux, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17They should do them in svg with inkscape or Xara XL :)
- zeldafan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/winrg.php
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Don't worry. XP's gay-ass UI was obviously produced by Fischer-Price.
Who in hell makes a OS called "Professional" and then has an ANIMATED DOG come out when you try to search for a file?
Yep. Microsoft. - Fordi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Or, at the very least, in some scalable way, and render the desktop in memory and drop the color depth intelligently (keeping the histogram updated as pixels are updated, rather than attempting to generate them on the fly). This way, not only are all resolutions and color depths smartly supported, but icons can be placed and sized in points by the rendering program.
- Aiwanei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8And iconfactory made them on a mac, not that it really matters, just a bit of irony :)
- whiteguysamurai, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11As it shows in the article, youy could always make your own.
Problem solved. - vashavoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6yeah was gonna say, dont think they actually made some of em. :)
- jarinudom, on 03/31/2008, -0/+6Compare to Apple's icon design guidelines:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGIcons/chapter_14_section_2.html
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGIcons/chapter_14_section_1.html
(section links at bottom) - transpyre, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8olllddd. 2001 for pity's sake. Saw this several years ago. How about a new guide for Vista style icons?
- skidogallard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Strangest thing.... I've heard of Gif Movie Gear. Nice little program.
- static_13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4actualy all of their xp icons where designed by iconfactory.com ...
that is the worst thing iconfactory produced so far! - invader, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6luckily, he met his demise in Windows RG
/windows [R]eally [G]ood edition.. google it. - AllanG, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10Microsoft didn't actually design their own icons. This is just a guide for xp icon creation.
http://iconfactory.com/design/detail/windows_xp - toomuchgreentea, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6It actually contains some good advices.
- Kyderdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4They Missed the step about calling Fisher-Price for there approval.
http://www.fisher-price.com - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've been using GIF Movie Gear for a couple years now... I'm suprised MS doesn't have their own tool for generating gifs.
- goatrandy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6@gregharmon - Damn, you're right. I guess all those rum-and-cokes have really taken the edge off of my snarkiness tonight. Don't worry though, I'll make up for it tomorrow by being TWICE as bitter and vindictive as ever. ;)
- Feyr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3gif movie gear is hardly a tool no one as ever heard about. i was using that back when i was still young and dumb (not that it's a bad tool in itself, but what i was using it for. personal webpages!)
- rnelsonee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, I was going to post this. The entire guidelines for Apple's "human interface" are really much more detailed, explicit, and just better than Microsoft's. Also, I do have to mention that there are a few key elements from Microsoft's UI standards, which they just released for Vista BTW, that are missing. Like Microsoft still has ***** like "Yes" and "No" for dialog boxes. Apple realized long ago you should have the buttons that have an action: "Save", "Don't Save", "Import", "Don't Import"... etc. Not only that, but they always explain what will happen if you choose those buttons in small text between the main question and the choice buttons.
Oh, and to show I'm not a complete Mac fanboy, Apple is horrible at sticking to a theme. Right now, iTunes, Mail, Safari, and iPhoto (the four most notable apps for all Macs) all have a different "look and feel". So, boo Apple. - MrTea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Same here; very useful when resizing gif's and making multi-framed sigs.
- aquax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wonder when Apple and Microsoft are going to start supporting vector based icons in their OSs?
No longer will we be pixel pushers, we'll be bezier curvers. - millixaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The "My Pictures" icon has the Amiga logo in it...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Microsoft really needs to revamp their icons. People want variety and originality.
- jrbrewin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2that's a nice idea.
of course
a) icons are availble in high colour mode, and 16 colour mode, and different resolutions- for a reason. Even vectorising icons, and then scaling down to small sizes (8x8, 16x16) results in a huge loss of details, in much the same was as rendering true colour icons in traditional 16 windows native colours looks wretched (yes, people still use 16 colour mode.. rdp, for example). so there's a reason for creating scaled and recoloured icons.
b) the resource overhead of re-rendering, scaling, and re-colouring icons, and windows elements, back in 2001 when xp came out, was too prohibitve, compared to the relative ease of creating multiple icon sizes and colour depths
c) this stuff is all changed in vista. - ptrcd003, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, that was 15 mins well spent..damn that clippit.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1July 2001
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Microangelo is the best for windows and it's exist since 98?!
- jnorris441, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've heard of GIF Movie Gear! I've been using it for years!
(once again, sarcasm in an article description is lost on digg users) - antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OK, how about Vista icons? ;)
- jrbrewin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this digg is sooo 2001.. literally.
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Will that be quadratic or cubic? Leave it to Microsoft to do linear Bezier "curves".
- MaiSacNjoMouf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hmm.. I've also been using gif movie gear for years...
I guess I'm nobody too... - rustic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I spent half the day reading MSDN articles, so it is nice to see one that is really informative.
- thunderer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I don't know, but Apple is going with their 512 x 512px icons. My hard drive icon shall now take up half my desktop.
- superdoug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0GIF Movie Gear- Who hasn't heard of it
- RICKTFIED, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0re: "ANIMATED DOG come out when you try to search for a file?"
... not just a search dog, a search dog with thousands of assistants: FLEAS. If you listen to the sfx when search and the dog are fetching your results, you'll hear him scratch at something that has nothing to do with searching.
Could be worse: He could stretch out and start licking ..... - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/winxpicons11.gif
Why are we putting framed photographs in folders? - xJVz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Personally, I prefer Inkscape for creating icons... (hell, you could probably use Adobe Illustrator as well; export to SVG and boom, new icon)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4I'm just a retard.
- sdpenner, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0How does something like this get 400+ diggs??
This system is a little broken. - calebcharles, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3chortle. nice reference.
- VargVikernes, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I don't know if you're a retard or just joking but those icons on my start menu are on the right side.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3.. downdigg please.
- goatrandy, on 10/12/2007, -90/+9 This one time I saw two men having sex in the park, and before this article that was the single gayest thing I had ever seen. Now I know better.
JK - It's actually informative, I just don't think that this MSDN article has anyplace on Digg, as it is not even remotley 'news'. Sorry about the snark, eepman. Hell, I'm even gonna add you as a friend, because it's a nice article, just not news.
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