Iconx Settings...

I started really playing with iconX and now I have my desktop icons showing using it. I apoligize if this was went over already but I don't see much in this section. Be sure to set your font gamma to 300 in your registry beforehand.

Take a look: http://tetsudust.net/files/downloadimages/...currentshot.jpg :own:

I took a look at some OSX shots I collected which have the labels on top of a white bg and put my background white. I then tweaked a lot and I put my settings as follows:

Offset X:0 and Y:0 on everything.

And I have the icon size the same on everything just pick the size you like best.

Icon: Uncheck everything except on selected under both icon sections if you want it to highlight when you mouseover or click keep merge color checked and change color to suit.

Font: LucidaMacBold size 10. No underline bold or italic

(though I have seen some shots where it is different sizes)

shadow: checked

sharpness:4

Darkness: 487

Height:1

Angle:0

#29892

Btw, if you want to make something sort of like piles (like maximus showed in his screenshot in the other thread in this section) you need to make an icon which wouldn't be a IconX icon unfortunatly. And you need to make a label to group with it.

After you make that icon you need to make a group of icons which you arrange in a row and then group those together and set the first icon to toggle them. If you want you can make another set and attach those to the second sets.

In Litestep this used to be called a "wharf" and NeXT had something like this too. Except the wharf had the icons sliding out with a sliding out animation.

#29893

thank you .. very nice tips..

#29899

Can I ask where you got the cat girl icons from?

#29900

A friend sent them to me who is a big anime fan on OSX. I then converted them to XP format for personal use.

#29903

What is IconX??? :blink: :blink: :blink:

#29928

Originally posted by nrzero@May 29 2003, 03:05 PM
What is IconX???

its in desktopX.

a great app that have been serving us ever since zion was raised.

we made docks, widgets and many cool things with it.

Now there is an option iconX which makes every icon on your desktop modified to whatever size with transistions based on, mouse down, mouse on, mouse away and all that..

Because of desktopX, its possible to have 128, or even 256 (for you DZ) icon sizes, in perfect quality, while the rest of the system stays on the registry size.

That thing is doing a comeback alright, and i've been using it for a long time now.

#29932

I however got interested in it for just as I showed on my screenshot, just to show the icons in a different size as my file manager. I just had to make the labels look decent.

I also have the konfab type widgets but I tend to not use them as I don't want to clutter things too much. To me cluttering your desktop is not a sign that you are a great customizer. If a killer widget was to be made of course I'd try it though.

BTW, I never really was into DesktopX docks it wasn't until the windows docks came out that I started liking docks on windows.

Like I said I have been into desktop customisation for a long time since WB wasn't even a stardock product and way before veronica desktop which became desktopX. So my tastes have evolved since then. I should have kept a screenshot from each of my periods to have on my site so you can see how my system has evolved.

However every once in a while I would play with DesktopX just to see it's widgets, etc. and to see if it has features which I would like.

#29939

It is.. it is.. it - ... PERFECT!!!!

Amazing work, smoke! (Y)

#29943

Why not place another dock vertically like Ys dock and place your full size PNG icons there, where you can auto-hide on mouse out ? Is IconX less troublesome and less system-hungry ?

What are Piles ?

#29944

I put this little tutorial up for the enjoyment of those who want the complete OSX look, desktop icons and all. If this doesn't suit you that is fine, this isn't meant for you.

The point here is not to make another Dock but to do Desktop Icons, large ones with good looking labels without affecting the rest of the system's icon sizes. They don't use any more CPU than a normal icon on my old system with my moderate graphics card (geforce2). And I'm not afraid to use some memory I after all bought a few 128mb sticks for a reason.

If you want to run multiple docks you probably aren't afraid of using a little more ram either.

In closing, I provide information. It's up to you what you want to do with it.

P.S. Piles are a rumored feature in Panther to group documents on the desktop into "piles" I suggest you look it up.

#29952

If this doesn't suit you that is fine, this isn't meant for you.

No need to be sarcastic at every chance! This is the 3rd post you use the same line when somebody is asking you a question and is suggesting something.

You stated that you liked uncluttered desktop and you put people down that used every gadget, so I made a suggestion for you and others based on your taste for a clean desktop. It seems to me that another dock provides the full size of the icons you shoot for and gives you even more space and it is even more unclattered than your solution. It also does not affect other icons on the desktop. You would do a lot better by saying...that is an alternative but I like it this way because...blah....blah....blah.