dock icons Options

[brooklyneast05]

alright, trying to change these dock icons is driving me insane. i have no clue why when i download the icon images they don't work. i can add any other picture on my computer as an icon, EXCEPT, the ones i've downloaded (from deviantart) that are specifically for icons. i've been messing around with it for like 45 minutes and the only thing i can figure out is that i think it somehow has to do with the images transparent backgrounds. here's what i notice when i open these two images side by side in my info, it seems to read one and not the other




the one on the left will let me set it as an icon, the one on the right won't. so i don't know. if i open it up in "get info" and it won't show the actual picture in the top left then i know it won't work as an icon, but i don't know what exactly is making it not work. the one on the left has no transparency and while the one on the right has a transparent background.

[brooklyneast05]

actually you know what, the left one is actually a transparent background too, except for some reason it just puts a white background on it on my desktop or if i use it as an icon. if i open that one in photoshop its transparent. so forget my hypothesis maybe

but i think one is png-8 and the other is png-24

[drinksmokefuck]

lmao, now you need my help huh

[brooklyneast05]

yeah mother f*cker.


because this makes no sense to me why anything works other than the downloaded dock icons

[drinksmokefuck]

ok, you got both things in the "get info" box, highlight the icon you want(the actual picture icon), then paste it on the other one


chances are, its not gonna work cause all the deviantart ones i downloaded didn't work either, try a different site

[brooklyneast05]

yeah yeah i did that, but it doesn't work.


you see if i copy paste the image on the left into the get info for the application, it works. but i has a dumbass white background on it. if i copy paste the transparent background image (the original download for the dock) then it doesn't work.

[brooklyneast05]

god dammit i wanted the kanye bears. i'll download from another site and see if those work and it's just deviantart.

[drinksmokefuck]

yeah

[brooklyneast05]

tell me somewhere you get them that works for you kevin

[drinksmokefuck]

http://www.iconstick.com/

[drinksmokefuck]

http://guistyles.com/category/icons/dock-icons/

[brooklyneast05]

so far nothin is working, everything i get info on is showing up just like the pic on the right up top. not showing the picture, and not showing it when i add it either.


figures

[drinksmokefuck]

this one might work


http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/icons.php...e=2&cat=mac

also, yeah i tried that website above, and it works

actually, have you tried opening tried opening the icon picture and saving it as a different file, too bad im not sure which one is right

oh shiet, here comes nadal to the rescue


btw you can have mine if you want, i got power rangers/batman/videogame consoles/and dinosaurs

[brooklyneast05]

alright so the dinosaurs one's work...others i try haven't. man wtf is the difference that's making some not work and some work

[drinksmokefuck]

And every time I think of staying with her
She bring a friend around that make a n*gga reconsider

[brooklyneast05]

this is ruining my day i was gonna make my desktop the best ever and now i can't cause none of these damn icons work.


out to get a as always

[Teesa]

[drinksmokefuck]

lol cant be that bad, mine looks pretty decked out




f*ck gotta find a firefox replacement

[brooklyneast05]

it's just a pain to have to download them all just to see if they might happen to work. plus nothing i've wanted has worked. no kanye bears, no nike dunks, no air jordans.

[drinksmokefuck]

thats cause you keep picking stuff

im guessing most of the stuff on deviantart is for object dock for windows

[brooklyneast05]

well if i knew what about the image was making it for object dock on windows then i'd figure out a way to make it for my dock on mac.



this is still bothering the hell out of me that i don't the difference between those that work and those that don't.

[fatTIRE]

JC WANTS TO BE MADE


do you know the format the ones that work are? wheres nadal at, we need his help

[brooklyneast05]

i duno what the format is. for instance the dinosaur ones from this page

http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/icons.php...e=2&cat=mac

i download the zip and the icons in it work. they aren't just normal image files though becasue i can't click on them and open them in preview or anything like that. i can only use them as icons.

[fatTIRE]

yeah, these are 2 that work, but the format is different which is throwing me off too

[brooklyneast05]

^exactly. different formats seem to work, i can't find just one specific thing that is working


man i'm reading this

2. The icons are missing, I just see generic documents!

Our .ZIP archives are created with the BOMArchiveHelper built into Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 (Panther and Tiger). If you are using an older version of Mac OS X, you will need to decompress them using Stuffit Expander version 9.0 or later. Prior versions do not support Apple's custom ZIP format that handles Mac resource forks.

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maybe i have an older version of stuffit expander. although i don't really get what stuffit expander is if it's not an actual application. when i search in finder nothing comes up, but it has to be there or how else am i selecting it to open all my other shit?

shit's confusing. all for some damn icons