🚀 go-pugleaf

OK, everyone -- how about concise summaries of the tools/features that
you consider essential to make this program usable.  EMail works.  So
does posting.  I'll make one big summary; I bet that we can solve the
biggest problems in relatively short order.

Gordon> Well no offense, but when I need to draw an icon for an app
Gordon> that I'm writing I'm seldom in the mood to sit around and
Gordon> write MORE code so I can do so. We "get" to extend it? Good
Gordon> clean fun if you don't have to do something else for a living.

I also mean no offense, but I have a queastion for you Gordon:  

Why do you program?  Is this just a job, or what?  If it _is_ just a
job, then surely your time is worth buying a "real" tool to do your
icons.  Shouldn't you guys be using a graphic artist, anyway?

Gordon> I can appreciate it being extensible, but it should have come
Gordon> with enough "extensions" to really replace the utility it's
Gordon> replacing.

IconBuilder replaces nothing.  Icon.app was a demo.  It was completely
unsupported, no promises.  It broke under 3.0, and the original author
has left the company to pursue other interests (if Sulley is to be
beleived, his initials were even removed from the 3.0 icons :-( ...).

I think that NeXT made a good faith effort to get us something, and
went one step further by giving us an opportunity to make a community
project out of it.  If that is not enough for all of you that are
upset, your comments are probably welcome at NeXT.  Like the plague, I
imagine...

Later,

Erick
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