Re: Icons (Was: [XaraXtreme-dev] Options dialog)

[Phil Martin <phil@xxxxxxxx>]

Luke Hart wrote:

> Phil Martin wrote:
>
> > I suggest that anyone who is designing or choosing icons has a quick  
> > look at the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. There are lots of  
> > generally useful tips about icon design and usage in here and 
> > ideally  LX icons should be usable on Mac OS X without modification.
> >
> > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/ 
> > OSXHIGuidelines/index.html
> >
> > Phil
>
>
> I think that's a very good idea, since the Mac community are far more 
> "discerning" (although I could think of other terms for it). The icons 
> on your average Gnome \ KDE \ Windows desktop are not really 
> consistent, but because Apple made an effort to enforce guidelines 
> from the beginnign this isn't the case on the Mac.
>
>    Luke

Yep. The Apple Human Interface Guidelines document could be applied to 
all LX interface design. Obviously it contains a lot of Mac OS X 
specific information but the general guidelines are very good - the Mac 
philosophy is (unsurprisingly) very close to our own.

Phil