Re: Apple system icons: guidelines for use in Cocoa applications?
Re: Apple system icons: guidelines for use in Cocoa applications?
- Subject: Re: Apple system icons: guidelines for use in Cocoa applications?
- From: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:32:22 +0200
On Jul 11, 2005, at 21:05 , Kevin Walzer wrote:
I'm curious how other view the question of using Apple system icons in
their Cocoa applications, for toolbars especially. (...)
Yet I'm confident the icons are copyrighted by Apple, and the
absence of
documentation on this issue tells me that Apple does not want to
explicitly license their use in third-party applications.
Kevin,
I don't know any more on this subject than you, but from what I
heard so far, it depends on how you use them. Apple seem to tolerate
use of the strictly task-based icons on toolbars (i.e. make font
larger, open address book, etc.). What they seem to like less is when
you hijack one of their application icons for toolbar uses. If it's
"Launch iTunes" it's okay, but if the icon is supposed to mean "open
music list", they're no fans of that, it seems.
They definitely don't like use of their icons in cross-platform
apps. As long as you deploy on OS X, it is in Apple's interests, but
e.g. if your app is GPLed, users will expect the icons to be GPLed as
well, and thus they might get used on other OSs, won't help Apple
sell any machines.
Also note that many apps don't actually use Apple-created icons,
but rather very similar ones. A while ago, a few people on this
mailing list actually collected free toolbar icons. There still may
be some at http://www.iratescotsman.com.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de
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