XP Menu icons

fredlongworthhighschool · Tue Sep 16, 2003 3:22 pm

Not a problem as such, just a question. Has anyone designed any of the little icons for the XP Style menu system. I've done a couple but don't want to waste time if someone else has a nice full set.

Perhaps we could collate our icons and have them available for download on the Milonic site?

Post by **John** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 3:27 pm

I don't have any, but it sounds like a good idea to me, Andy. I could use a few more.

If not here, I can post them on my ftp site. We'll see what the boss says.

Hergio · Post by **Hergio** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 8:26 pm

I actually have a couple made already. They are a couple of my own design as well as some I lifted off of windows and shrunk down. What I would like to do is actually go through some of the dlls in XP and use those, it would really look sharp! Also, if anyone can get some nice 16x16s from some linux windows managers or OSX, that'd be great. There are some really nice ones out there!

Post by **Andy** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 9:02 pm

Marty has been working on a full set of icons and other menuy type images.

She's psetering me to get them posted up and I'll see if I can get them up later this week.

I think we are talking of quantities in the thousands so the problem is getting a system built with the minimum of admin.

I'll keep you posted though.

Cheers
Andy

Post by **John** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 9:06 pm

Sounds great. Deleted my previous post for ftp so as not to confuse things.

Post by **Andy** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 9:11 pm

OK, thanks John.

News on the bandwidth front is coming soon.

I'll need to talk to You and Dave off-list about something that's happened since the downloads were taken down, it affects the future slightly.

I'll be in touch

Cheers
Andy.

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 9:13 pm

This is something I need too, I just grabbed whatever icons I had for now, but a nice set would be wonderful.

I should add a note on this, when I began designing the menu, I didn't like to use margin because it adds space at the end of the vertical menu. If you use separators this extra space is ignored by the separator.

So I adjusted the size of the images, to allow 2 extra pixels, enough space between the picture and the text I needed.

What I did was on the background image, took away 2px from the right of the first color.

The images had to be adjusted too. I suggested that the images be changed to allow space without needing the margin.

Regards
maz

fredlongworthhighschool · Tue Sep 16, 2003 9:24 pm

Good stuff. Anywhere we can submit the ones we've done so far and then the best can get selected for an 'official' pack?

radalla · Post by **radalla** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 10:37 pm

I think I have some icons that I could send to you guys. Jest tell me how should I send !!
Rgs

Post by **John** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 10:45 pm

Sounds good, but sit tight. Andy will let us know when he's ready for them.

Thanks.

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 2:52 am

Have you considered horizontal icons?
There is a difference.

maz

Hergio · Post by **Hergio** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 3:58 am

Horizontal icons? What are you talking about? In XP the main icons in a menu are the little boxy ones on the left hand side of the menu. Elaborate if you will.

Post by **John** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 4:06 am

Whoa. You got me on that one, too, Maz. What the heck

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:11 am

I'm teezing you, but my horizontal menu is based on xp. I made the horizontal background vertical.

fredlongworthhighschool · Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:28 am

I've uploaded my icons here if anyone wants to have a look at them.

http://www.flhs.org.uk/xpicons.zip

It's an 18k ZIP file.