 Mac OS X allows continuous scaling of icons up to 128x128 pixels A computer icon is a small pictogram, usually ranging from 16 by 16 pixels up to 128 by 128 pixels, which represents a file, folder, application or device on a computer operating system. Icons were first developed as a tool for making computer interfaces easier for novices to grasp in the 1970s at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center facility. Icon-driven interfaces were later popularized by the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating environments. Image File history File links Icons-compared. ...
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Pictogram for public toilets A pictogram or pictograph is a symbol representing an object or concept by illustration. ...
A pixel (a contraction of picture element) is one of the many tiny dots that make up the representation of a picture in a computers memory. ...
A computer file is a collection of information that is stored in a computer system and can be identified and referenced in its entirety by a unique name. ...
A Folder is a machine that is used for folding. ...
Application software is a loosely defined subclass of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly to a task that the user wishes to perform. ...
An operating system (OS) is an essential software program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ...
The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...
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Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) was a flagship research division of the Xerox Corporation, based in Palo Alto, California, USA, which essentially created the modern personal computer paper paradigm. ...
The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh, or Mac, line of personal computers is designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ...
Microsoft Windows is a series of popular proprietary operating environments and operating systems created by Microsoft for use on personal computers and servers. ...
Icons may also be found on the toolbars and in the menus of computer application software such as Microsoft Word. lol n00bs Microsoft Word is a word processing application from Microsoft. ...
Virtually every major computer operating system has the ability to use an icon-based graphical user interface (GUI) to display information to end users. It has been suggested that Look and feel be merged into this article or section. ...
Function or program icons
 Several desktop icons from Windows Vista operating system Most computer functions in a GUI are represented by a function icon. Placing the cursor on the icon, and clicking (or double-clicking) a mouse, trackball or other button usually starts the function or program. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 646 KB) Summary Windows XP with LongHorn Transformation Package v10. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 646 KB) Summary Windows XP with LongHorn Transformation Package v10. ...
Cursors feature in many of the interfaces between computers and their users. ...
Mouse properties in GNOME, with a setting for double-click speed A double-click is the act of pressing a computer mouse button twice quickly without moving the mouse. ...
The creation of a good function icon can be considered as an art form in itself, comparable to that practiced in the past in the domain of miniature painting by old masters such as Joseph Severn and Charles-Francois Daubigny. Joseph Severn (December 7, 1793 - August 3, 1879) was a British portrait and subject painter. ...
Charles_François Daubigny (portrait by Nadar) Charles-François Daubigny (Paris, February 15, 1817 - Paris, February 19, 1878) was one of the painters of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of impressionism. ...
The icon must be original, distinctive, and tiny and it must be useful on a wide variety of monitors set at different resolutions. This work is further complicated by the need to create several sets of function icons for several types of views in several types of operating systems, for any given program. For instance, the GUI guidelines in one operating system might specify the need to create sets of 16, 32, and 48 pixel icons for any program while the GUI guidelines in another system might specify sets of 16, 24, 48 and 96 pixel icons for any program.
Document icons In certain views of folders or directories in a GUI all the documents or files are represented as icons, in addition to their file name and, in certain cases, other details. In most systems and for most files these icons are generic images, representing the program used to create the file, or the file type. In this case, the comments made in the previous paragraph concerning the icon as an art form also apply to file icons.
In the case of graphic files most modern systems replace the generic icon with a reduced image of the graphic. This reduced image usually fits into a 128 by 128 or a 117 by 117 pixel box, depending on the operating system used. It is available in a "thumbnail view" or within some other specialized viewing area on the screen.
The most recent systems and the most recent applications often generate such reduced images from other types of files in programs which have not been traditionally viewed as "graphics," such as word processor software, text files, or business presentation programs such as Agnubis, Impress, or PowerPoint. A word processor (also more formally known as a document preparation system) is a computer application used for the production (including composition, editing, formatting, and possibly printing) of any sort of viewable or printed material. ...
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Icon library An Icon library, or "ICL", is a way to package icons. An ICL is a NE format Windows binary with ICON resources representing the packaged icons. The NE, or New Executable, is a new executable format that was introduced with OS/2 and Windows, and that was also used later in DOS 4. ...
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Pictogram for public toilets A pictogram or pictograph is a symbol representing an object or concept by illustration. ...
An example of a favicon rendered by Mozilla Firefox A favicon (short for Favorites icon), also known as a page icon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. ...
iconfactory logo The Iconfactory is one of the biggest GUI sites on the Internet. ...
The ICO file format is an image file format used for icons in Microsoft Windows. ...
The Apple Icon Image format is the icon format used in Apple Computers Mac OS X. It supports icons of 16×16, 32×32, 48×48 and 128×128 pixel icons, with both 1- and 8-bit alpha channels and multiple image states (example: open and closed folders). ...
External links - Chart / timeline of icons of various graphical user interfaces
- Microsoft's "Let's Make a Theme" containing Microsoft's definition of 'icon'.
- Microsoft's Creating Windows XP Icons
- Apple Computer's Introduction to Apple Human Interface Guidelines article that contains the guidelines for doing Mac OS X icons
- KDE's Icon Style Guide
- GNOME Human Interface Guidelines 2.0
- Favicon.ru — make favicons and desktop icons from many types of images and edit them in online editor
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