New-style Python icons

[and-google]

Personally, I *like* the new website look, and I'm glad to see Python
having a proper logo at last!

I've taken the opportunity to knock up some icons using it, finally
banishing the poor old standard-VGA-palette snake from my desktop. If
you like, you can grab them from:

http://www.doxdesk.com/img/software/py/icons.zip

in .ICO format for Windows - containing all resolutions/depths up to
and including Windows Vista's crazy new enormo-icons. Also contains the
vector graphics source file in Xara format. You can also see a preview
here:

http://www.doxdesk.com/img/software/py/icons.png

 

[Steve Holden]

Personally, I *like* the new website look, and I'm glad to see Python
having a proper logo at last!

I've taken the opportunity to knock up some icons using it, finally
banishing the poor old standard-VGA-palette snake from my desktop. If
you like, you can grab them from:

http://www.doxdesk.com/img/software/py/icons.zip

in .ICO format for Windows - containing all resolutions/depths up to
and including Windows Vista's crazy new enormo-icons. Also contains the
vector graphics source file in Xara format. You can also see a preview
here:

http://www.doxdesk.com/img/software/py/icons.png

Nice job!

regards
Steve

 

[Scott David Daniels]

> <announcing new web-site based Windows icons>
You can also see a preview here:
http://www.doxdesk.com/img/software/py/icons.png

Maybe you could change the ink color to better distinguish
the pycon and pyc icons.

 

[John Salerno]

Personally, I *like* the new website look, and I'm glad to see Python
having a proper logo at last!

I've taken the opportunity to knock up some icons using it, finally
banishing the poor old standard-VGA-palette snake from my desktop. If
you like, you can grab them from:

http://www.doxdesk.com/img/software/py/icons.zip

in .ICO format for Windows - containing all resolutions/depths up to
and including Windows Vista's crazy new enormo-icons. Also contains the
vector graphics source file in Xara format. You can also see a preview
here:

http://www.doxdesk.com/img/software/py/icons.png

Very nice, thanks!

 

[GISDude]

very sharp! i like 'em!

 

[and-google]

Maybe you could change the ink color to better distinguish
the pycon and pyc icons.

Yeah, might do that... I'm thinking I might flip the pycon icon so that
the Windows shortcut badge doesn't obscure the Python logo, too. Maybe.

I'll let them stew on my desktop for a bit first though...

 

[Michael Tobis]

I think this is great work but imagine what you could do with a real
logo!

Besides the pleasant colors what do you like about it?

I have in mind something with a coil motif but I can't execute it worth
a damn.

mt

 

[and-google]

Besides the pleasant colors what do you like about it?

I like that whilst being a solid and easily-recognisable, it isn't
clever-clever.

I had personally been idly doodling some kind of swooshy thing before,
with a snake's head forming a P and its forked tongue a Y coming out of
it, but in retrospect it was just trying too hard. The plus-tadpoles'
simplicity appeals to me.

 

[Michael Tobis]

OK, but Python IS clever, so its logo ought to be too.

Since you are acknowledging they are tadpoles, I guess you've heard my
gripes...

mt

 

[Carl Banks]

Personally, I *like* the new website look, and I'm glad to see Python
having a proper logo at last!

I've taken the opportunity to knock up some icons using it, finally
banishing the poor old standard-VGA-palette snake from my desktop. If
you like, you can grab them from:

http://www.doxdesk.com/img/software/py/icons.png

I like 'em. Almost makes me wish I was using Windows.

(No it doesn't.)


Carl Banks

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

I've taken the opportunity to knock up some icons using it, finally
banishing the poor old standard-VGA-palette snake from my desktop. If
you like, you can grab them from:

http://www.doxdesk.com/img/software/py/icons.zip

in .ICO format for Windows - containing all resolutions/depths up to
and including Windows Vista's crazy new enormo-icons. Also contains the
vector graphics source file in Xara format.

could you perhaps add an SVG version ?

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[Joel Hedlund]

http://www.doxdesk.com/img/software/py/icons.png

Neat!
/Joel Hedlund

 

[3KWA]

Superb! How about getting them in the 2.5 release?

Part of the reason why I am asking is that I am not sure what I have to
do to get Win XP to use these instead of the one coming with 2.4.2.

Cheers,

EuGeNe

 

[=?iso-8859-1?q?Luis_M._Gonz=E1lez?=]

This is strange... I've been trying to access this site since
yesterday, but I couldn't (Firefox can't stabilish connection with
server www.doxdesk.com).
However, I seem to be the only one with this problem...

 

[Bruce]

3KWA skrev:

Superb! How about getting them in the 2.5 release?

Part of the reason why I am asking is that I am not sure what I have to
do to get Win XP to use these instead of the one coming with 2.4.2.

That`s easy:

control panel
Folder options
File Types
*scroll to py file*
advanced
change icon

and youre done.

 

[Tim Parkin]

This is strange... I've been trying to access this site since
yesterday, but I couldn't (Firefox can't stabilish connection with
server www.doxdesk.com).
However, I seem to be the only one with this problem...

You could try using a proxy (one of the anonymous proxies would do the job).

Tim Parkin

 

[Ant]

It's easier than that in this case. Just unpack the icons in yout
Python directory over the top of the existing ones. The change should
get picked up the next time you log on.

 

[3KWA]

Thanks a lot!

(Still think 2.5 could have spunky new icons

EuGeNe

 

[and-google]

This is strange... I've been trying to access this site since
yesterday, but I couldn't

Might it be possible you have malware installed? Since I do a bunch of
anti-spyware work, there are a few different bits of malware that try
to block doxdesk.com, usually using a Hosts file hijack.

Try it with the IP address 64.251.25.168 instead - if that works you
should probably investigate your Hosts file and/or look at spyware
removers.

 

[and-google]

could you perhaps add an SVG version ?

Yes. I'll look at converting when I've used them a bit and am happy
with them. I think some of the higher-level Xara effects may not
convert easily to SVG but I'm sure there'll be workarounds of some
sort.