Iconoclast

[bcholmes]

Gah! Can someone explain Mac icons to me? Mac has this tool called Icon Composer, which I think I understand. It takes a few different sizes of icons (in some image format) and bundles them up into an icns file. That much is clear to me. I kinda like the .icns files; they're simple and easy to understand.

Then there are these other icon things that I find here and there. On "free icons" websites. These icons don't seem to be .icns files. They can't be opened using the Icon Composer, and they can't be chosen when I'm using the Jar Bundler tool. But in all other respects, they seem to behave like icons. What gives?

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[browse.livejournal.com]

Can you point me to an example of one of these "non-icns" icon files? Let me take a look and see if I can figure them out.