Refined Mellel Dock Icon......Please!
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Refined Mellel Dock Icon......Please!
Hey fellas,
I'm a Mellel user (some would say abuser), and I plan to use your product for a long time to come. But indulge me, please! Refine the dock icon. I dig the typewriter icon itself, but it just doesn't look quite as shiny and slick as the other icons in my dock. Also, I'd drop the II. I, and I'm sure practically everyone else, refer to your program as Mellel, not Mellel II.
Does anyone else agree with my dock icon concerns? Surely it's not an exceptionally pressing concern, but with all Mac programs, the devil is in the details.
Good night and Good Luck
John
I'm a Mellel user (some would say abuser), and I plan to use your product for a long time to come. But indulge me, please! Refine the dock icon. I dig the typewriter icon itself, but it just doesn't look quite as shiny and slick as the other icons in my dock. Also, I'd drop the II. I, and I'm sure practically everyone else, refer to your program as Mellel, not Mellel II.
Does anyone else agree with my dock icon concerns? Surely it's not an exceptionally pressing concern, but with all Mac programs, the devil is in the details.
Good night and Good Luck
John
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I too don’t like the II in the dock icon. The last (and only other) application I know that showed the version number in the icon was the 1.0 version of Apple Mail. I think a icon should represent the application itself (what it does or how it looks or for what it could be used) but not a version number.
In Mellel, the flat, 2 dimensional II also destroys the 3 dimensional look of the typewriter. I also think that the icon looks a bit too bulky in the dock but that could depend on ones personal taste.
While the old typewriter perfectly represented the features of the very first versions of Mellel, the actual and coming versions could be represented by an more modern one (if it has to change throughout the versions at all).
I have replaced the icon with a simple pen a while ago so I only see the typewriter when Mellel starts up:
Instead of the very detailed, full featured (with all keys) typewriter, maybe a simplified version would look less bulky and more like a icon (symbol) than a graphical illustration
http://www.heise.de/ct/motive/02/03/p800.jpg
Maybe a unusual typewriter would be a better fit (because Mellel tends to go it’s own way)
http://staff.xu.edu/~polt/typewriters/franklin.html
instead of the Royal Typewriter, Model 10 from 1914 that is used at the moment
http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/4200/4253/typewriter_1.htm
In Mellel, the flat, 2 dimensional II also destroys the 3 dimensional look of the typewriter. I also think that the icon looks a bit too bulky in the dock but that could depend on ones personal taste.
While the old typewriter perfectly represented the features of the very first versions of Mellel, the actual and coming versions could be represented by an more modern one (if it has to change throughout the versions at all).
I have replaced the icon with a simple pen a while ago so I only see the typewriter when Mellel starts up:
Instead of the very detailed, full featured (with all keys) typewriter, maybe a simplified version would look less bulky and more like a icon (symbol) than a graphical illustration
http://www.heise.de/ct/motive/02/03/p800.jpg
Maybe a unusual typewriter would be a better fit (because Mellel tends to go it’s own way)
http://staff.xu.edu/~polt/typewriters/franklin.html
instead of the Royal Typewriter, Model 10 from 1914 that is used at the moment
http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/4200/4253/typewriter_1.htm
Sweet pen icon you are using. Where did you find it?Mart°n wrote:I too don’t like the II in the dock icon. The last (and only other) application I know that showed the version number in the icon was the 1.0 version of Apple Mail. I think a icon should represent the application itself (what it does or how it looks or for what it could be used) but not a version number.
In Mellel, the flat, 2 dimensional II also destroys the 3 dimensional look of the typewriter. I also think that the icon looks a bit too bulky in the dock but that could depend on ones personal taste.
While the old typewriter perfectly represented the features of the very first versions of Mellel, the actual and coming versions could be represented by an more modern one (if it has to change throughout the versions at all).
I have replaced the icon with a simple pen a while ago so I only see the typewriter when Mellel starts up:
Instead of the very detailed, full featured (with all keys) typewriter, maybe a simplified version would look less bulky and more like a icon (symbol) than a graphical illustration
http://www.heise.de/ct/motive/02/03/p800.jpg
Maybe a unusual typewriter would be a better fit (because Mellel tends to go it’s own way)
http://staff.xu.edu/~polt/typewriters/franklin.html
instead of the Royal Typewriter, Model 10 from 1914 that is used at the moment
http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/4200/4253/typewriter_1.htm
You could download it here:ed wrote: Sweet pen icon you are using. Where did you find it?
http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/details.php?id=866
It’s inside the TTS2 Otherz package and named “Black Pen“.
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Well, I admit I began to write with an Olivetti Lettera 50 (a refreshed version of the classic Lettera 22), and that one is the icon of the typewriter for me. It was like a modern laptop: tiny, unobstrusive, easy to carry around.
While I could shot a photo to my old typewriter (still working from the 70s), here is a series of similar models:
http://www.storiaolivetti.telecomitalia ... ivetti.asp
The Valentine by Sottsass is my preferred one.
Paolo
While I could shot a photo to my old typewriter (still working from the 70s), here is a series of similar models:
http://www.storiaolivetti.telecomitalia ... ivetti.asp
The Valentine by Sottsass is my preferred one.
Paolo
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Mellel is designed very beautifully (after you have replaced the brushed metal by aqua) but it's icon doesn't match this beauty at all. So I too took something else.
Here is my solution:
From left to right:
– shrinked Scrivener icon (still not really good looking, but at least a bit less massive)
– a new Mellel typwriter icon (don't ask me where I got it; prescisely at the time when I installed the Mellel try out for the first time it was just there on some web page)
– mirrored Bookends icon (the books were looking in the wrong direction, they were kind of staring at the dictionary and made it feel uncomfortable)
Call me fastidious or whatever else.
Here is my solution:
From left to right:
– shrinked Scrivener icon (still not really good looking, but at least a bit less massive)
– a new Mellel typwriter icon (don't ask me where I got it; prescisely at the time when I installed the Mellel try out for the first time it was just there on some web page)
– mirrored Bookends icon (the books were looking in the wrong direction, they were kind of staring at the dictionary and made it feel uncomfortable)
Call me fastidious or whatever else.
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Agreed. For my money the typewriter itself was perfect from the beginning. actually one of the things I really liked about Mellel. The II was a backward step, though I don't mind the golden blush that arrived with it.
I am slightly ashamed to realise how much app icons matter to me, but they just do. A bad icon is like keeping an ugly stapler on your desk, the Mellel typewriter however continues to be a joy.
I am slightly ashamed to realise how much app icons matter to me, but they just do. A bad icon is like keeping an ugly stapler on your desk, the Mellel typewriter however continues to be a joy.
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Just for a bit of fun, here's a nice typewriter icon for Mellel...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12077
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12077