Creating a More Tasteful ShoveBox Icon
Since I released ShoveBox in August, a number of users have taken me to task on its menubar icon.
Up until now, it’s looked like this:
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(The little box opens up when you drag importable data over it)
Many menu extras on Mac OS X use grayscale icons. But I reckoned ShoveBox’s wasn’t a problem because a few apps that I use had color menubar icons. But man do those look out-of-place on Leopard!
So I finally budged and drew a new one:
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I’d considered a setting so users could choose which they prefer. But in the interest of avoiding preferences, I’ll probably make this the single icon for all new versions of ShoveBox.


December 1st, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Well, since you’ve already got preferences, I don’t think adding a choice in Appearance would be all that unwarranted.