Thread: AMP v1.0 Worklog

those do look very good.

yea, ill have it emailed to you asap aychamo

instead, i just uploaded a .dmg to my site download at

http://www.jakobmetzger.com/misc/AMP/AMPIcons.dmg

ok, and one more thing. If the font isnt already, which i think it isnt... can you change the fonts of the lists to Lucidia Grande, its the default font for OS X and i think it would clean up AMP's appearence

Originally Posted by JakobMetzger

heres a few icons i think would look really good in AMP....
http://www.jakobmetzger.com/misc/AMP/icons.png

in order i think it should go....

music DVD settings
gps movies ?????
photos ???? settings
webbrowser exit

i think both of those icons, that hammer and the other would make good settings icons

Those are some pretty nice icons. However, if it were me, I'd swap the GPS and Web Browser icons. After all, the one you have targeted for GPS is the same as the "Network" icon in Finder and Preferences. The one after movies could be a wardriving icon although I prefer the one aychamo already has. Also, I'd use the hammer for "tools". I'm not quite sure what you's use the "accessibility" icon for though.

Just my $.02.

Well, to be honest, I probably wont use any of those icons. For music, movies, photos, etc, I want to use the icons the Apple uses for their programs, so that there is as little confusion as possible for the user. The same reason I use the Safari icon for the web browser, because the user knows that icon to be the web browser. It would be really confusing if they clicked on the normal web browser icon and the GPS program opened up.

There's a few icons I have in there now that don't really make sense, and I'm trying to find replacements for them. But right now I just need to finish the GPS implementation. It's going really slow, as I have a slew of tests I'm in the middle of. I should have time after Monday.

Aychamo

Originally Posted by aychamo

Well, to be honest, I probably wont use any of those icons. For music, movies, photos, etc, I want to use the icons the Apple uses for their programs, so that there is as little confusion as possible for the user.

I agree for the most part. I think it's a good idea to use the program icons.

Originally Posted by aychamo

There's a few icons I have in there now that don't really make sense, and I'm trying to find replacements for them.

Yeah there are a couple I find wierd too. Namely the dashboard icon on the opening screen since you're also using it in another area. Not sure what I would put in it's place though. Other than GPS, which icons are you looking at replacements for?

I completely agree about the Dashboard icon. I may use that one that Jakob posted that looks like a speedometer or whatever. I want something that coveys "Settings", but still has a nice look to it (that matches the other icons). And the GPS one :-)

- Aychamo

theres gotta be a way to rip out the functionality of GE but not have to use it, just seems so processor unfriendly.