Thursday, April 16, 2009

Temp Icon and File Hosting

I spent some time working on a new icon. To be honest, I'm not that great of an artist so I took a photo of what I wanted it to resemble and used Illustrator to generate the paths. I know what I have now is nothing like my original idea but people do change their minds all the time, right? The blank blue page is supposed to be a blueprint of an EVE ship and the white page is supposed to have a bunch of financial charts.

I'm somewhat unhappy with SourceForge's file release system. It's just simply unintuitive and very hit-or-miss. Poking around, I did find a decent solution: Google Sites. They offer 100 MB of free storage space and I doubt I'll be causing any bandwidth issues. I'm thinking of possibly putting up my builds on this site. I know it's a huge inconvenience to ask people to download the newest XCode and figure out how to use it just to run this app. My main concern, though, is SourceForge's file distribution policies. I really can't find any details about it. I imagine, since this is a GPL license, that I can host it wherever I want but I do want to be sure.

So, in the mean time, I did set up a Google Site that I'll be using specifically for file hosting. For now, the only thing up there is my icon file. If anyone wants to look it over and modify it to make it more Mac-like with gradients and all, be my guest. I'd rather not spend my weekend working on such a minor detail.

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