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If you hate the default icons as much as I did, you’ll be relieved. I took chris.ivarson beautiful Gmail icons and adapted them for the OS X Leopard toolbar.

Click here to download the replacement icons, and read the INSTALL file for instructions (downloaded [downloadcounter(gmail-notifier-0.1.zip)] times).

20 Comments

Blaze said

Very nice!
What are the other apps you’ve got up there (the clock and the cup)?

Rafael said

Hello, do you have an icon for the google calendar? Thank you! Great tip btw.

John B. said

There’s an old program called Gcount which did what notifier does for Gmail. The guy stopped development when notifier came out but the app is still out available for download and you can steal its icons (although you have to rename them which can be tedious).

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~natan/gcount/

Someone might be able to get in touch with the developer and ask for permission to include the icons with some sort of installer script (I use a BASH script) for distribution.

aus_pilot said

Any chance of a nice little calendar icon to match ??? Thanks

    Guillermo Rauch said

    I’ll make ‘em, I just assumed people only used the Gmail notifier like me :D

Hey glad you liked my icons so much that you’ve adapted them to suit your needs. Just an FYI though I also made a more Leopard-esque menuextra icon as well:

http://csi.nfshost.com/2008/05/fluid-094-and-menubar-goodness/

(scoll to “UPDATE #2″ part of the entry)

    Guillermo Rauch said

    All I can say is: Chris Ivarson ftw!

Alan Hogan said

Just wondering if anyone has made matching Calendar icons yet. (I absolutely hate the Flag version of the calendar icon!)

БPATAH said

Большое спасибо, что просветили, и, главное, как раз вовремя. Подумать только, пять лет уже в инете, но про это первый раз слышу.

Mp said

Guillermo,
just a quick note to say, thanks very much for this. (It’s surprising the default icons are so terrible!!)

jan said

Great icons! Thanks alot

Blindmikey said

Download link is broken! :(

hello !
the link is broken…
where can I find them ?

Dean said

Anyone know of a link to get these icons?  It appears it’s not a valid link…

Sheeple Liberator said

The link is broken but the author has also posted them here: http://hints.macworld.com/dlfiles/Gmail_Notifier_icons.zip

However, these icons are too small. Does anyone know of some icons available that are the same size as the official notifier icon?

Your thoughts?

About Guillermo Rauch:

CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost / Cloudup (acquired by Automattic in 2013). Argentine living in SF.