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Haiku has an extensive UX and design guidelines document - including meticulous rules for icon design. The tape recorder looks that way because it adheres to those guidelines, not because of a file format.



Can you provide a link? The only thing I found is https://www.haiku-os.org/development/icon-guidelines. I wouldn’t call that extensive.

I think Android’s (https://m2.material.io/design/iconography/product-icons.html...), Apple’s (https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...), and Microsoft’s (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/style/...) are more detailed than that.

(And yes, that’s comparing to the work of huge companies, but I don’t think that matters for deciding whether to call this ‘extensive’)

I also do not rule out that the tech choices they made (partly) drove the guidelines. It doesn’t make sense to proscribe things the OS cannot display.




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