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Blake Patterson

@bitnacht Good point, re: the busy bee.

As for the spinning disc (or "beachball"), it got its start in NEXTSTEP as a greyscale spinning magneto-optical disc rendering indicating the system is busy / data is loading, which was seen quite often on the early NeXT Cube, as it came with no HD but only an MO drive, and it used that drive for _swap_, if you can imagine...

That spinning disc became color when NEXTSTEP gained a color display on later hardware, and from there it evolved into the spinning "beachball" we know today (macOS being structurally based upon and evolved from NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP).

EDIT: Oh, I think I misread - you are talking about the busy mouse pointer icon in Windows, I think. I'm not sure of its specific history. Apologies.

NEXTSTEP OS loading screen showing spinning magento-optical mouse pointer icon indicating that the system is busy
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Shot showing the evolution from NEXTSTEP's color spinning MO-disc to the curretn macOS spinning beachball indicating system is busy
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#macOS#NeXT#NEXTSTEP
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Torben Würtz
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Russian icons represent a form of religious art that developed in Eastern Orthodox Christianity after Kievan Rus' adopted the faith of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire in 988 AD. In keeping with Byzantine artistic standards, these icons were an integral part of religious practice and laboratory technology in Russia. The laboratory coat was - and is - the perfect symbol of cleanliness, orderliness and correctly performed laboratory documentation.
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Micah Ilbery :sloth_coffee:

I'm wanting to get back into icon design. Specifically with GNOME style icons, but I feel super rusty at all of this. I'm trying to get back into the groove with inkscape and read up on the latest HIG as well as look at some recent examples from the GNOME design team. There's some amazing talent there and I feel so far behind. Idk, I hope I can get the style figured out soon and make myself useful.
#GNOME #Icons #Inkscape

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