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Old 09-05-2004, 01:10 PM   #25
johnblommers
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Tooltips to the rescue

Allow tool tips to tell the use what the pretty icons mean. IMHO and I do NOT develop UI for a lliving, icons are not enough, there should always be a text field nearby. Think along the lines of the customizable icon bar that pervades Mac OS X application. You can add text to the icons and you can make them smaller if you want.

As for a junk icon, the Photoshop noise filter creates dust, so make the particles big enough so they look like junk. Just grab a few of those 3D particles and render them to make your icon?

BTW on the PC the junk looks like light colored particles, on the Mac the junk looks like dark colored particles. Is that right?
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60% - It’s for nerds.
39% - The show’s stupid.
01% - My parents were killed by Klingons and it's still too painful.

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