[Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: MacPython icon mockup

[Jacob Rus]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>>   3. Let's make sure that python files get useful "kMDItemKind"  
>> names.
>>      Right now, if I associate one with PythonIDE.app, I get  
>> "plain text
>>      file" for .pyc, and "Document" for .pyo, which is not useful.
> That related to the spotlight importer.

No, it's related to the CFBundleTypeName declared in the Info.plist  
of the application assigned to them.

> Now that we (almost) have new icons it would be great if someone  
> could have
> a look at IDLE and at the very least writes down what could be done  
> to make
> it a better OSX citizen. Actual patches would of course even be  
> better.
>
> Please keep in mind that IDLE is a cross-platform application using
> tkinter and that it is probably virtually impossible to make it a
> really great OSX application.

Can we start by using cmd-q, cmd-s, cmd-v, etc. as the keyboard  
shortcuts?  The ctrl- versions are confusing, and also override  
useful text shortcuts like ^a to go to the beginning of the line, etc.

Also, opt-/, opt-g, opt-shift-s, and opt-m are completely worthless  
as shortcuts because they get overridden as ÷, ©, Í, and µ before  
ever making it to the menus.

Of course, that won't go /that/ far toward making IDLE work on Mac,  
but it's a start.

> I wouldn't make a distintion between applets (what buildapplet  
> builds) and applications (what py2app builds) and prefer the  
> generic application icon for both of them.

Okay, that's fine.

> The only thing that seems to be missing is an icon for 'Build Applet'.

Indeed.  I'll try, but I'm not sure I'm up to drawing it.

> Now that we're almost there it is time to be annoying ;-). Are you  
> willing to donate these icons to the PSF (Python Software  
> Foundation), are at least write down the terms in which these icons  
> may be used?  I've sent a message to python-dev to ask what is  
> needed to get new icons included into the python distribution.

I'd be glad to have the PSF use them for any purpose.  Some sort of  
attribution would be nice too.  What's the norm for these things?

-Jacob