[vlc-devel] New Document Icons for Mac OS X

[Dominic Spitaler]

Here's a list of specific Icons i would create:

Audio
WAV
OGG
WMA
M4A
MP3

Video
AVI
MPEG
M4V
MOV
FLV
RM
WMV
MKV
VOB

Maybe
MXF
DV

I think that are the most commonly used formats.
All other Fileformats get the appropriate generic icon (Playlist,  
Video, Audio, Subtitle, None).

Is that list fine?

Should the generic Icons have no text at all or something like "VIDEO,  
AUDIO, SUBS, PLAY",
the problem with adding generic text is that I can't fit SUBTITLE &  
PLAYLIST into the icon format.
Any suggestions?

Am 13.05.2009 um 21:17 schrieb Andre-John Mas:

>
> On 13-May-2009, at 13:57, Felix Paul Kühne wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 13.05.2009 um 19:17 schrieb Dominic Spitaler:
>>
>>> Hmm, i agree with you. So we have then 5
>>> generic icons without a file type on them,
>>> those are assigned to matching file types,
>>> how is this done, is this easy to do for me,
>>> or should someone else do it for me?
>> That's really easy to do. It's a matter of downloading Xcode and  
>> adjusting VLC's project file accordingly. This requires absolutely  
>> no programming skills.
>>
>> There is a HOWTO on [1], which describes all necessary steps to  
>> compile VLC on your Mac so you can test your changes.
>>
>>
>>> Also is there a list what are important filetypes?
>> None that I know of.
>> The most common container formats should be AVI, MPG, MP4/M4V/M4A,  
>> MOV, FLV, DV, MXF, WAV, RAM/RM, OGG/OGM, WMV/WMA, MKV/Matroska, VOB  
>> and ASF. For these, it definitely makes sense IMO to do specific  
>> icons, as only a couple of these is understood by QuickTime in case  
>> Perian isn't installed and therefore, they'll show their icons.  
>> Additionally, the user may disable QuickLook and more importantly,  
>> file extensions are hidden by default.
>> Having separate icons for each and every kind of MPEG doesn't make  
>> too much sense for me; same for all the RAW data types (obviously  
>> except for MP3).
>>
>
> I wonder whether we could simply limit icon types according to data  
> category? I am thinking subtitles, audio, video, etc and leaving the  
> file file extensions to do the rest.
>
> André-John
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