[Github-comments] [geany/geany-osx] A new icon for the macOS Big Sur / Monterey design language (PR #33)

[Jiří Techet]

> The steam of Geany is something that if you try to fit in the box makes it very small, makes the icon very bad, and since overflow is something nice in the mac apps, I thought maybe it is nice to have it there: 

Totally agree, the genie "escaping" the square is really cool.

> I can make the shadow like this:

I think that's too little shadow. Basically I just thought to have the shadow closer to the genie and the handle (and the shadow could even be a bit darker if needed). It could be reduced to about a half and end at the place of the red dot below (instead of the blue one where it ends now).

<img width="512" alt="aaa" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/713965/141359838-69a9ff49-2ee2-4ef1-9f53-7819538f04ac.png">

> Yeah for some reason I don't know why that happens :/ any editor that I open crashes the middle gem, it happens when you zoom into the SVG and when you don't it seems fine, I think I have to redesign it but it seems like a hard object to modify so I have to see if I can do it 

I tried to open it in Sketch (which is the only vector editor I have) and it seemed fine there. Anyway, would be nice if you could find some workaround for the export at least (e.g. adding a triangle of the same color to the top).

> Yeah unfortunately :( SVG cannot store shadows and so when you export SVG, it only encodes the PNG shadow into a base64 data in the SVG, something you cannot edit. I don't know any open source vector editor on the mac. If I knew I would, but currently I only know of a few editors and Affinity Designer is the one that I had so...

I understand. There's linux Inkscape but its macOS port is quite terrible (just tried to install it and it doesn't seem to respond to mouse clicks). The original Geany icon was created in Inkscape I believe but Inkscape also uses svg only as its format. I guess we'll have to live with the afdesign file.

> P.S. Geany is your software, it doesn't matter if it is overshadowed or not, it's you who should like it :)

Nah, it's everyone's editor, and it's not that I dislike any of your designs (in fact the opposite), I'm just sure it won't be touched by anyone for the rest of eternity so better to misuse the guy who's willing to do the work as much as possible now ;-).


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