Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 at 8:24 PM
Since its release, I’ve been a fan of Jan Van Boghout’s VLC Icon Overhaul, preferring the dark video icons to QuickTime’s slightly modified generic document set. Part of the challenge of publishing a Mac application is coming up with icons that stand out against the rest of the system while still retaining the standardization that users expect, and Jan’s add-on makes VLC-playable files easily identifiable without introducing any confusion about their type. I’ve taken the liberty of creating 512×512 Leopard size icons for each format VLC can play, ready to drop into the application’s contents and use. Download the set here (full size preview), and follow the same instructions to install them. (Note that I haven’t built a large VLC application icon — something I may do soon.)
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Thanks, Collin. Similarly, I’ve put together a 512×512 icon for iMovie HD (for those of us who are keeping the old iMovie around, and want it to look pretty in Cover Flow). Get it here.
Nice work! I like that old iMovie icon much more than the new star one :-)
Is the app icon missing on purpose, I dig his black play button versus the cone if you can conjure that up too ;) — Nice work on the file type icons.
Correct, I haven’t yet made a replacement application icon — I’ll have to make that soon.
Hope you’ll release the application icon. I’m waiting for this
Can someone anyone please make this icons avaliable and appliable on windows b/c i like vlc player but i HATE with a passion the icons hahaha. So someone please develop these so they can be applied (easily) for windows please!
Thanks, Collin, for the much improved VLC overhaul! Never did like that tiger-striped cone-head.
Also, thanks to Derek! Replaced the UGLY Hollywood STAR with Derek’s great looking icon. I simply renamed it “APPL.icon” and stuck into contents/resources; viola… I have my pretty iMovie.app back and a much better looking taskbar.
Could you make icons for the MKV files as well!