SSH Tunnel Manager icon

written on Monday, 20th October, 2008

If you ever worked in a non-optimal development environment, which required the setup of several SSH-tunnels, you probably fell back on using the SSH Tunnel Manager, and very likely you got irritated by the pinkish and stylized sketch of a tunnel and flower which appeared in your Dock.

Photo: SSH Tunnel Manager icon sketch

Sketch of the icon

Opening Photoshop, dusting my Wacom-Tablett were the first things I did, after extensively working on a project, assisted by this tiny and incredibly helpful application called SSH Tunnel Manager. This application really sped things up and I really appreciate Yann Bizeuls work although I am getting to love the bash more and more these days! To make peace between my Dock and the SSH Tunnel Manager I sketched a small image of a mole. This image is only restricted suitable as an application icon – but far more pleasant to the eye, than this tunnel. Just my 2¢.
Perhaps I will find time to improve this icon a bit. Nonetheless, from a realistic point of view I can promise: it will never fit the correct guidelines and detailed style guides, Apple released! Sorry for that.

Photo: SSH Tunnel Manager icon preview

The final icon

Changing the icon

Reclaim your Dock!

This is easy. Select the mole.icns from the attached ZIP-file (see below) and hit ⌘ – c. Now open the Get Info (⌘ &ndash i) inspector for SSH Tunnel Manager from your Finder's Application window. Click on the small icon in the upper left (there should be a blue glow around) and hit ⌘ – v. The old icon should be replaced by the mole.

This is for you, hard-boiled GUI fetishists

Any changes will be at your own risk. The author of this text will not be liable for any damages, direct or consequential.

If the Dock icon is not enough for you and the icon in the application interface also should be replaced by the curious blind mole, there is a way. Promise to be careful. Then navigate to your application folder in Finder (or wherever you installed the SSH Tunnel Manager) and right-click Show package content. Navigate through the hierarchy Contents → Resources and replace the two files stm.icns and stm.tif with the two in the attached ZIP-file (see below). Now (re-)start your SSH Tunnel Manager – you should be done!

Download the icon

http://www.thefoundation.de/files/daniel/images/Icon_SSH-Tunnel-Manager.zip

SSH Tunnel Manager Icon von Daniel J. Becker steht unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung-Keine kommerzielle Nutzung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 3.0 Deutschland Lizenz.
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