Native style designed icons for macOS

[rnkn]

These icons use DejaVu Sans Mono font for the "Pd~" lettering. They are heavily stylized to fit with the macOS environment.

To use these icons without this PR merged

Download the binary files pd.icns and pd-file.icns from https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/56/files

$ mv pd.icns /Applications/Pd.app/Contents/Resources/pd.icns
$ mv pd-file.icns /Applications/Pd.app/Contents/Resources/pd-file.icns
$ touch /Applications/Pd.app

Edit: rebased with fresh icons with slightly reduced gradient.

[porres]

should we close this now that we have a new PR? #195

[rnkn]

@porres this PR is intentionally left open as it has installation instructions for people who prefer this design.

[umlaeute]

@rnkn i think that a PR is the wrong place for documentation.

if the PR has been accepted, rejected or solved otherwise (which seems to be the case here) it should be closed. else we end up with thousands of open PR solving solved problems again and again just because some people prefer one solution over the other.

(note: i personally don't care much about the icon set (although i think i dislike both suggestions, but not too much); i'm merely talking about the use of the issue/PR tracker)

[rnkn]

I think #195 is not aiming to solve the same problem. That PR has created an icon that looks the same cross-platform, whereas the designs I provided are intended to give Pd.app on macOS a more native icon feel, not touching other systems. I've renamed the PR to reflect this.

[umlaeute]

however, it seems that #195 and this PR are mutually exclusive (could you confirm that?)

if #195 is going to stay, this PR ought to be rejected as wont-fix

[rnkn]

I think I probably sparked the idea to get a higher resolution icon designed with this (and a previous) PR, so I guess #195 could be inspired by that desire. But my intention was that a macOS style icon would not be used cross-platform, and to put it another way, this PR addresses my belief that Pd would be better served if the macOS Pd.app looked at home on a macOS system.

[umlaeute]

i understand that; but this doesn't make it any more likely that this PR is going to be accepted (as there are obviously two camps: those that want to have Pd look the same on all platforms; and those that want to have Pd look native. It seems that the samers are currently prevailing, so there's little chance for the natives)

probably @danomatika could add his thoughts.

[danomatika]

I think the icon should be consistent on all platforms. This is in line with the work to provide a consistent font and object sizing between systems.

[umlaeute]

Since there is nobody going to push this to be included, I'm going to close this PR.

@rnkn please add the information on how to make Pd look more native on OSX to the wiki, which I think is the correct place for any such information.

[danomatika]

Note: I've asked for feedback and preference on the list multiple times. We could use this icon, for instance, as the basis for a the cross platform icon, however I didn't hear much about it.

Also, IMO I'm not sure how this icon looks "more native" than the other, but I suppose that's a matter of taste.