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Jakub Steiner
Personal blog · jimmac.musichall.cz/blogdesignprogramming
Jakub Steiner's personal blog at jimmac.musichall.cz covers design and programming. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “[Gnome] the Big App Icon Redesign”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked once, in a thread on freeing icons, for a post on GNOME's app icon simplification. The commenter says the change was mainly to make life easier for app developers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- [Gnome] the Big App Icon Redesign3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-01-24
What Hacker News says?
GNOME simplified its icons primarily to make life easier for app developers: http://jimmac.musichall.cz/blog/2019-01-23-the-big-app-icon-... (They still have different shapes, though)
Comment linking /blog/2019-01-23-the-big-app-icon-redesign/
on “Free the Icons”Submitted The Big App Icon Redesign Coming in Gnome as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted [Gnome] the Big App Icon Redesign as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Making of Gnome 3.14 [video] as a story · 2 points
HN discussion