Adiumeetie. Tweetie Style Adium Icon
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Here’s a new desktop goodie for your pleasure. It’s a replacement dock icon for the popular Mac IM client Adium following the style of atebit’s excellent Tweetie for Mac icon.
While the Tweetie Mac icon (and it’s UI) was discussed quite controversial (which caused some very nice Tweetie replacement icons to appear, like here, here, here or here), I grew to like the style of it. But Adium beside Tweetie in the Dock just looked weird… (No offense, Adam 
) So I redrew the whole icon and used Adium’s duck silhouette on it and made some obvious and subtle changes in comparison to the Tweetie icon. And thanks to Loren who kind of rubber-stamped this icon release.
The icon comes in various formats (iContainer, icns, png) in sizes from 512px-16px and as an Adium dock icon package. This icon package uses some more icons (just 128px each) for the different states of Adium (online, offline, alert etc.) and includes the application icon too.
Download
Just head over to my Goodies page or click the following download button and grab this icon while it’s hot.
Download Adiumeetie Icon v1.0 | zip | 1.5MB
Adium Icon Usage
Just double click the Adiumeetie.AdiumIcon file and the dock icon gets installed automatically. Then you can select the icon in Adium’s preferences under Appearance > Dock Icon from the drop-down menu. After this the icon should be ready as your new Adium icon both in the Dock and in your Applications folder.
The icon is free for your personal use and I hope you’ll enjoy it. If you do, don’t forget to spread the word via Twitter and all your other favorite social media sites.
Oh, and for best look and karma you should buy a license for Tweetie right away
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I like it! What about one for skype?
meh, I quite don’t like skype so my motivation for polishing it is pretty low. But we’ll see…
Awesome ! I’ll download it !
AWESOME wow, the only real legit 512×512 icon for adium, and it looks awesome too, right next to tweetie, but one problem, the 512×512 version…doesnt look right, check out this screenshot: http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/bluedoggiant/Picture1-8.png
I fixed it, here is a link, if you could please update the adium page: http://www.box.net/shared/2f93h354qz
If you give me credit for finding the issue, thatd be nice but i dont care
here was the problem, .adiumicons dont recognize .icns, i looked into adium’s own duck icons and they used pngs, 512×512 ones, so i replaced the icns in your .adiumicon with the 512×512 png you had in the pngs folder, then opened up the IconPack.plist and changed the Application icon to Adiumeetie Icon_512×512.png, now it works fine and the 512×512 version is completely viewable from finder
so the box.net link above is YOUR dock icon, but fixed so it doesnt give that weird image in the comment above. once you download it, you can shoot me an email and I will gladly take it down
I see that your an icon designer and why you used icns because the smaller versions like 16×16 were designed simpler, but AFAIK, adium apparently doesnt recognize them that way, just a small fix, i hope to hear from you regarding this! Thanks for reading
Hi Ahmed, glad you like the icon. As for the 512px display of this icon in Finder: Unfortunately this is a bug of Adium’s icns display and the use of icns files for the application icon is intended but it seems buggy. It’s funny just the 512px resource in the icns file gets destroyed in quicklook/cover flow while all other sizes are rendered properly.
I know all the other Adium icons are using just a 512px png file for their application icon but I can’t accept this as a fix for this bug. Cause this way the 16px size in Finder is rendered with this png file so it’s way too blurry e.g. in list view. I guess this is because usually all the Adium dock icons aren’t redrawn with smaller sizes which always makes them blurry in smaller sizes. But thanks for your investigation anyway
I suggest you also let the Adium devs know of this bug too so they see there’re people caring for the pixel perfect look of the Adium icons 
Yea I understand, thats what I said lol, I see why you used icns, many designers take this seriously.
It doesn’t seem so blurry though in list view pic here: http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa70/bluedoggiant/Picture1-9.png
it just seems more “sharp”, i guess thats what you mean
Are you going to update it? Just out of curiosity xD