Software icons

thightower · December 2012

And Done pretty darn quick. <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />

Ill be sure to run this from all Macs so that it will grab icons here and there everywhere etc. <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />

Some obscure ones I have some the wife has, and some on a few odd balls here and there.

thightower · December 2012

One question though

Is this a low level scan or will it descend into folders in the Applications folder ?

I have some way older apps that are no longer on any machine. I may need to pull them off of a backup and add them. So basically can I just copy the folder containing them to my applications folder or will I need to color code them for easy spotting and run the script and then pull them out ?

I am also assuming you guys need to manually do the resize as most of mine uploaded have not shown up. I looked thru the terminal output and no where does it show Parallels as added. Should it be in the database already ? I ask because its icon is not on my iOS app.

I do have a few that show they were added kinda cool to know what you contributed to. <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

roustem · December 2012

Tommy,

The script currently does not look in the sub folders. I will have to make changes to fix that.

Resizing is done on Mac using a great sips utility. I plan to run that daily, it is a semi-manual task at the moment.

Thank you for taking time to do this!

mgshoutman · December 2012

@Roustem, thanks for providing the script. I have run it and now will wait what later happens on my iOS devices. IMHO you are taking the wrong approach for adding "rich" icons for several reasons.

1) I bought apps and added them to 1Password but for some reasons I do not use them and they are not installed.

2) I own app licenses with different version numbers and have installed only the latest ones. some got modified app icons.

3) in general people are not willing to run a script, or know how to execute it.

4) in general the visibility is part of the UX. either show all licenses as rich or none, with the current approach it is half baken,

Ideal situation would be if some tool scanned 1Password desktop for rich app resources and send it your the server. Even better if 1Password 4 send these resources itself.

btw in the past I used also an second app "Wallet". In this app, app licenses where synced to all devices through Dropbox. They were probably PICT resources and not so "rich" as what 1Password currently provides.

mgshoutman · December 2012

FYI: I had to drag (install) apps (I do not use) in the application folder to be scanned by the script and have them finally show up in 1Password 4 for iOS.

Icons added this morning through the script are now visible in 1Password too <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

roustem · December 2012

Hi mgshoutman,

It is great to hear you are seeing the new icons.

In 1Password 3 all icons are stored inside the data file. Unfortunately, this greatly increases the size of the file (and the backups). With the iCloud space limitations we wanted to reduce the data file size.

For logins, 1Password 3 also forces everyone to download and process a lot of web pages. For software licenses, you need all the apps to be installed on your Mac in order for the icons to be collected.

In 1Password 4 we are changing this to store all icons in the CloudFront content delivery network (CDN). The icons are pre-resized and the device only downloads the sizes it needs (for example, retina images for iPhone 4 and 5 or non-retina images for iPad mini). CDN has many endpoints around world and that makes downloads very fast.

We are going to monitor the logs to see what icons are missing and add them.

mgshoutman · December 2012

Roustem, more and more software app icons are popping up but most of them are only "rich" in list view and not in detail view. Strange also some are shown on an iPhone but not on my iPad and vice versa. Perhaps the process needs more time to sync....

Michiel

thightower · December 2012

I have been adding them as quickly as I can download and re run the script, I would estimate I have done 20 - 30 in the last 2 hours. I lost count and its not that important <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

It would be easier if I were at home on a fast connection vs the hotel connection <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' />

Of course I only have my keychain to go on.

jhollington · December 2012

I'm having the opposite problem, with some icons showing up in detail view, while only the generic one shows up in list view.

mgshoutman · December 2012

[quote name='jhollington' timestamp='1355784520' post='65801']

I'm having the opposite problem, with some icons showing up in detail view, while only the generic one shows up in list view.

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all icons are displayed as generic in both list view and detail view if they are unknown by the server. I have already many rich icons shown in list view but only a few of them are also rich in detail view...

jhollington · December 2012

Yup, I do realize that, and I downloaded and ran the script earlier today to try and fill in the gaps. The ones that would have likely been uploaded from my own Applications folder (i.e. that weren't showing before), are only showing in [i]detail[/i] view for me in many cases, not in [i]list[/i] view. The ones that have been there since the beginning (obviously pre-populated by the Agile team) are appearing fine in both views.

thightower · December 2012

Guys

Can you open detail view for example and leave it showing I find most of the icons will download within 1 - 2 minutes. I have to leave the detail pane showing and the icon will pop up. Eventually.

It looks like this is a second download from the server ie its a different size etc

Can you verify this on your ends ?

jhollington · December 2012

I definitely find that in detail view -- they show up after a few seconds. My problem is that they're not updating in [i]list[/i] view.

thightower · December 2012

Hm its weird some of mine show up and others still do not show up. in detail. ? scratches head ?

roustem · December 2012

I just pushed 40 more icons that were added recently.

If you could give a name of the icon that does not work for you, I'd check the server.

thightower · December 2012

Adium is not coming thru in any form,

Skype is showing in just detail and not list

It could just be me on this connection as I know Skype was good, I am hammering it pretty hard. But Adium has never worked for me. Oops I have a custom icon set. I wonder if thats the issue with adium. Let me kill the custom icon and try again <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />

thightower · December 2012

Roustem,

The icon for MenuBarFilter is super minuscule I almost thought it was a speck of dirt on the iPhone screen. May want to check that one <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />

You can also make the Busycal2 icon the same as the busycal one

mgshoutman · December 2012

Roustem,

After several scans I am missing:

AirRadar: [url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/27740/airradar"]http://www.macupdate.../27740/airradar[/url]

Clusters: [url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33585/clusters"]http://www.macupdate.../33585/clusters[/url]

ImageFramer Lite: [url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/37923/imageframer-lite"]http://www.macupdate...mageframer-lite[/url]

MacFamilyTree: [url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/8018/macfamilytree"]http://www.macupdate...8/macfamilytree[/url]

MacPilot Lite: [url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33067/macpilot-lite"]http://www.macupdate...7/macpilot-lite[/url]

Prizmo: [url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31157/prizmo"]http://www.macupdate...ac/31157/prizmo[/url]

Squirrel: [url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/27380/squirrel"]http://www.macupdate.../27380/squirrel[/url]

Next exercise will be to use Pacifist for extracting Apps (installed within packages) and drag them in the Application folder. EDIT: done

Question: how do I add System Prefs pane apps ? I noticed that both BusySync and Printopia are both available as "rich" icons. I like to add Witness [url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/38409/witness"]http://www.macupdate...c/38409/witness[/url]

Last but not least, it seems the display of rich icons in detail view is now also much faster and for ALL apps. Perhaps it was due to some server caveats last night?

roustem · December 2012

Thank you for the Pacifist tip! I was trying to get a few icons yesterday but didn't feel like running the package installer.

I updated the script to scan for prefPanes in[list]

[*]/Library/PreferencePanes

[*]~/Library/PreferencePanes

[*]~/TempApps

[/list]

Also, the apps are scanned in[list]

[*]/Applications

[*]~/Applications

[*]~/TempApps

[/list]

including subfolders

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/96313/softwareicons.rb.zip

The image server is loaded almost at 100% even with the CloudFront caching. This might explain why some icons are being slow to load. We are working on improving the server.

roustem · December 2012

Found an issue in the app that might be causing the missing icons in the list view.

golfsierra · December 2012

@roustem: tried your latest script ... thats all of the output <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' />

iMac:Desktop golfsierra$ ruby softwareicons.rb

==========================================

This script will scan your Applications folder for software icons.

The icons will be to uploaded the remote server to be later shown in 1Password application.

Continue [Y/N]: Y

Could not find icon for /Applications/Folder Icon Maker.app

Done

thightower · December 2012

Hey Roustem

Script ran well here and pulled in all my prefpanes minus a few obscure ones that are almost at the point of no longer being viable in OSX. But it could still be useful for folks on older systems.

It still did not pull in the icon for Witness etc. I will assume this is becuase it uses the generic Ppane icon when in the folder and an appropriate one when in the system pref ?

While were at it if were going to really do this. How about adding to the script so it will look into the mail bundles folder and pull the icon for things like attachments tamer and mail tags etc ?

mgshoutman · December 2012

Another issue, as the script will only work on english systems and not others as it searches in 'Applications' etc. and not the local translation...

golfsierra · December 2012

@mgshoutman: That may be an explanation for my problem. I use a German system ...

thightower · December 2012

Hey whom ever uploaded the Win 7 icons many thanks.

I need Win Vista, Win XP, Win 200 also

cheers

Outside of that,

Roustem,

I have a few things stored like I have a dedicated entry called "Receipts - *Source" aka Receipts - MacHeist

Will there ever be a way for us to add a icon for entries like this.

I suppose I could move them over to notes as its an easy fix, Hmmm ?

I also have all my Safari Extension stored in 1P under "Safari Extension - *Name, any thoughts on this one. I can consolidate them into 1 entry. Which will help my OCD with having those icons in place.

Man I remember when we did this in 1P3 I think I started out with like 50-100 apps in my section. I now have in excess of 500 entries. I have sure spent some on apps Of course not all that is money spent some are dupes ie v1, v2, v3 and some are great free ware I have found. But I digress thanks for the cool memories of all those times during 1P3.

I looked and the farthest back I can see me using 1P is sept 2008, which considering the trial would have made that actually aug 2008. Been a fun bunch of years with you guys.

mgshoutman · December 2012

It seems no more icons have been added yesterday....

thightower · December 2012

I added about 15 or 20 I assume they didn't run the app to add them.

mgshoutman · December 2012

I just found out, some icons have been added.

I am still missing icons for:

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]AirRadar: [/font][/color][url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/27740/airradar"]http://www.macupdate.../27740/airradar[/url]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Clusters: [/font][/color][url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33585/clusters"]http://www.macupdate.../33585/clusters[/url]

Corel Paint it!: http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod3750106&cid=catalog20038&segid=1013&storeKey=us&languageCode=en

Hindenburg Journalist: http://hindenburgsystems.com/products/hindenburg-journalist

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]ImageFramer Lite: [/font][/color][url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/37923/imageframer-lite"]http://www.macupdate...mageframer-lite[/url]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]MacFamilyTree: [/font][/color][url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/8018/macfamilytree"]http://www.macupdate...8/macfamilytree[/url]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]MacPilot Lite: [/font][/color][url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33067/macpilot-lite"]http://www.macupdate...7/macpilot-lite[/url]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Prizmo: [/font][/color][url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31157/prizmo"]http://www.macupdate...ac/31157/prizmo[/url]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Squirrel: [/font][/color][url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/27380/squirrel"]http://www.macupdate.../27380/squirrel[/url]

Witness - a system prefs pane app - is not scanned by the script

mgshoutman · December 2012

It seems more rich icons have been added last night but

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Hindenburg Journalist: [/font][/color][url="http://hindenburgsystems.com/products/hindenburg-journalist"]http://hindenburgsys...burg-journalist[/url]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]MacFamilyTree: [/font][/color][url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/8018/macfamilytree"]http://www.macupdate...8/macfamilytree[/url]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]MacPilot Lite: [/font][/color][url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33067/macpilot-lite"]http://www.macupdate...7/macpilot-lite[/url]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Prizmo: [/font][/color][url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31157/prizmo"]http://www.macupdate...ac/31157/prizmo[/url]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Squirrel: [/font][/color][url="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/27380/squirrel"]http://www.macupdate.../27380/squirrel[/url]

Witness: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/38409/witness

are still missing

Henry Y. · December 2012

I have a few that don't work with 4.1b4:

Aurora Photo Editor - http://aurora-photo-editor.en.softonic.com/mac

Breeze - [url="http://macupdate.com/app/mac/33941/breeze"]http://macupdate.com...ac/33941/breeze[/url]

ControllerMate - [url="http://macupdate.com/app/mac/17779/controllermate"]http://macupdate.com.../controllermate[/url]

Doom 3- [url="http://macupdate.com/app/mac/17466/doom-3"]http://macupdate.com...ac/17466/doom-3[/url]

iPhoto Library Manager - [url="http://macupdate.com/app/mac/7158/iphoto-library-manager"]http://macupdate.com...library-manager[/url]

Leawo iTunes Cleaner - [url="http://www.leawo.com/tunes-cleaner-mac/"]http://www.leawo.com...es-cleaner-mac/[/url]

Musictube - [url="http://macupdate.com/app/mac/40444/musictube"]http://macupdate.com...40444/musictube[/url]

Undercover - [url="http://macupdate.com/app/mac/20425/undercover"]http://macupdate.com...0425/undercover[/url]

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