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 Keyboard Maestro allows you to select the status menu icon. Keyboard Maestro allows you to select the status menu icon.
  
-The current lovely status menu icons were done by [[https://​www.stairways.com/​action/​linkthru?​iconaholic|Iconaholic]],​ and you can also use the Classic finger tapping icons. ​ As well as that, you can get more status menu icons from [[http://​www.stairways.com/​action/​linkthru?​getmorestatusmenuicons|our web site]] or [[http://​forum.keyboardmaestro.com/​c/​statusmenuicon|the forum]] and you can create and optionally contribute your own versions. ​ You can drop a new status menu icon .zip archive on the Keyboard Maestro application dock icon to install it.+The current lovely status menu icons were done by [[https://​www.stairways.com/​action/​linkthru?​iconaholic|Iconaholic]],​ and you can also use the Classic finger tapping icons. ​ As well as that, you can get more status menu icons from [[https://​www.stairways.com/​action/​linkthru?​getmorestatusmenuicons|our web site]] or [[https://​forum.keyboardmaestro.com/​c/​statusmenuicon|the forum]] and you can create and optionally contribute your own versions. ​ You can drop a new status menu icon .zip archive on the Keyboard Maestro application dock icon to install it.
  
 The format is fairly simple, you need a folder with the name of the icon (which must be unique relative to other contributed icons), and in that folder you have a sequence of files named StatusItem and then then the animated sequence StatusItem1,​ StatusItem2,​ etc. You can have as many as you like.  If the icon is a template icon (black and clear only), then add the word “Template” to the name.  And finally the extension can be either .tiff or .png.  The file should be either a 16x16 icon, or ideally a retina tiff file with both a 16x16 and 32x32 at 144dpi (you can create the retina-ready tiff files using tiffutil -cathidpicheck,​ or you can use a tool like Opacity.app). The format is fairly simple, you need a folder with the name of the icon (which must be unique relative to other contributed icons), and in that folder you have a sequence of files named StatusItem and then then the animated sequence StatusItem1,​ StatusItem2,​ etc. You can have as many as you like.  If the icon is a template icon (black and clear only), then add the word “Template” to the name.  And finally the extension can be either .tiff or .png.  The file should be either a 16x16 icon, or ideally a retina tiff file with both a 16x16 and 32x32 at 144dpi (you can create the retina-ready tiff files using tiffutil -cathidpicheck,​ or you can use a tool like Opacity.app).
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 Then you archive the folder into a zip file named NameStatusMenuIcon.zip (eg ClassicStatusMenuIcon.zip) and drop it on the Keyboard Maestro application dock icon or [[mailto:​support@stairways.com|email it to us]] with a cover letter indicating your permission for it to be distributed,​ as well as your name to be published with an optional URL if desired. Then you archive the folder into a zip file named NameStatusMenuIcon.zip (eg ClassicStatusMenuIcon.zip) and drop it on the Keyboard Maestro application dock icon or [[mailto:​support@stairways.com|email it to us]] with a cover letter indicating your permission for it to be distributed,​ as well as your name to be published with an optional URL if desired.
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manual/Status_Menu_Icons.txt · Last modified: 2017/08/21 21:55 by peternlewis