jahc wrote:
@Mason

And thank you for making it! It's such a useful resource. Especially when the best thing I can draw myself is tiny square boxes!

Chris wrote:
@Mason

Do you have a MicroSD card icon kicking around anywhere, and if not can you add it to your to-do list please?

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The new icons are mainly allready a result of user suggestions.

I hope this doesn't mean that no other suggestion can be made
So, here's one that crossed my mind right now: drop shadows altogether. They add little (if anything at all) and not having them not only saves you lots of work with the alphachannel of the normal state, but also makes it a lot easier to add the glow.

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If you have a big icon with much details it will look very ugly if you scale it down. I have made several test which allways lead to the same results...

Having too many details in icons is a mistake in first place: icons are supposed to be symbols immediately readable by the eye that convey few but clear pieces information; moreover, no matter the technique utilized (multi-size bitmaps, vectors, whatever) they will never look good at a small scale.
Anyway, I'm curious... could you show an example of icon that does not look bad when scaled down?

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Ahhh, now I understand and I have to agree! From this point of view it is of course nice to have such a feature. But it is also a little hell for the icon artist as he has to guess how any icon will look with any effect.

Oh, well, it's the other way around: it's the effect that has to be chosen to suit as many types of graphics as possible. Then, once the effect (or effects, if the system is designed to support more than 1) is set in stone, artists also have the required information to draw effective icons.
Just to make an example, if the glow we are used to was calculated on the fly, I guess no amigan would have a problem with it

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1. The visualisation used for the new icons is my own individual style - love it or hate it, but I will hardly change it. I know that tastes are different but I also know that another well know artist in the Amiga community is working on an alternative set.

See, I wasn't talking about tastes. Of course you are the one to decide how your icons look
I only suggested to reduce the usage of gradients because that lessens the contrast (and thus icons are harder to read): that is not a matter of preferences.
You're absolutely free to accept/reject such suggestion.

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2. The new icon size is, as Ken allready mentioned, a tribute to the bigger screen resolutions available. As I said earlier: Having scaleable icons is not a solution - the system must also be prepared to use different sizes of icons.

Although I didn't comment on the subject until now, I think that using nicely interpolated icons for downscaling gives good results (but source icons must be big - say, 128x128 - of course).

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- it is easier to paint icons with the effect added.

I don't agree: pre-painted alternate states double the work to anybody who wants to draw an icon (and you are one of those who are most affected by this ) and leads to inconsistent look, because anybody will draw the icons the way he/she prefers/can (just as an example: when I created the icons for BOH, I tried to stay consistent with the usual glow look, but I couldn't make it exactly like yours or others').

still the target at one point should be really resizeable icons (= vector ones). isn't vista and w7 using those?

I'm in the middle of customising my Amiga with new icons etc. and am having great fun doing so, however for the life of me I cannot find where I would change the icon displayed when a USB memory stick or a DVD is put in, or change the icons for JPEGS or MP3's etc.