Are you using the special NaNoWriMo preview version? If so, there was a slight problem in that the welcome screen does no de-activate after registration. Download the latest version (which fixes a lot of bugs anyway) from the main website and you should be okay.
Geesh! You guys who are bent on whining about the new icon need to cope. Is it such a big deal what the thing looks like? Shouldn’t you be more obsessed with your writing?
I for one never knew that an “S” existed in the old version of the icon. It wasn’t outlined at all, and it’s even debatable if that border between the yin and yang symbols indeed was an “S.” The new icon is almost exactly the same as the old, but just makes it apparent that an “S” is there for Scrivener.
So for the person who was talking for “all” of us, asking the rhetorical question if L&L thinks we’re that thick in not realizing or seeing that an “S” was there in the older version, shove it! Not every one’s perception is the same. And give some kudos to the artist’s originality people! This is art in motion. These guys worked damn hard for what they did. And the result’s in the putting (pudding?).
Lighten up on the small stuff. And if you don’t like it because you’re way OCD, then replace the damn thing and stop whining.
OUCH.
(I liked the old one, too. 
But I will stop whining now and go massage my bleeding knuckles. Please put the yardstick away.)
Obsessed with one word at a time. It’s ALL small stuff; that’s all I for one can handle…
Hmmm. Does that new icon make me look fat?
I basically prefer the old one too … in fact when Keith first made the new one public, I said I would be changing it. Given my orientalist background and current status, the yin-yang had a great resonance, and that is masked by the S on the new one.
But when it comes down to it for me, an icon is there for a purpose, for making a selection of whatever kind … all that really matters to me is that it should be distinctive in relation to the others in whatever interface you are working in at that moment. So the new dock icon, it does that clearly so it stays … Toolbar icons, for me, the same … they are distinctive, I’m not going to get hung up about them.
But then it takes all types to make a world — thank heavens! However, I feel sort of sorry for those who find that a set of icons is a deal-breaker for them, irrespective of the function of the app. It’s not limited to Scrivener, of course; I know of people writing into forums for other apps taking that line.
Mark
Deal-breaker??? Are you mad? I would take Scrivener 2.0 in a heartbeat even if the icons were all utterly indecipherable.
I have no clue how to change them anyway, so I will live with the new one in perfect peace.
As it is, I’ll forget I had this conversation in about seven minutes, so it hardly matters anyhow.
Ah Shrumpkin, welcome. Soon I may be able to pass to you the role of suffer no fools, take no prisoners critical pertinacity and retire to the role of gray eminence. Droo
Droo,
Ha! Too funny. Mum, yeah. I hear ya. One word at a time indeed. In that regard, it IS all about the small stuff. I stand corrected.
As for the icon: Hmm…I like it any way they wish to make it. I still had no idea that the old one contained an S. Perhaps it’s time to take one of those vision tests with the dots? “Tell me, what do you see?”
Shrumpkin
Dots.
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Hey, not to change the subject or anything, but loving the updated site speed! Very peppy and no errors so far.
Wow. Scrivener 2.0 is a vast improvement in every way that I have explored. The revamped Scrivener website is a pleasure.
Now there is a Screen Casts Online Video Tutorial on Scrivener 2.0.
screencastsonline.com/index_ … ivener.php
Don McAllister at ScreenCastsOnline.com probably does the best video tutorials for Mac products and software.
I am sending links to the ScreenCastsOnline Tutorial on Scrivener 2.0 to my friends, even some of my old Windows bound friends.
Congratulations to Keith and Scriveners all.
/Daniel
Well said…BUT (KB just having logged out, sshhh…), you can change them! Keith wrote:
. It works! (I won’t quote the rest as it is too tragic.)
Now in my view, the main icon is the signature of the developer, and he or she can have any image they choose–it’s beyond judgment. It deserves, especially in the face of so many other perfections, nothing less than unconditional positive regard. Always.
However, there are some sensitive souls that need every bit of help any angel offers, just in order to write…even one. single. word. at a time. For me, the current binder icon was a bit like the hand held in “full stop” position. Crisp! Erect! On target! (Well, I never am.) The old binder icon, open, inviting, white page ready for one’s first stroke. It was…suggestive. Of the next couple of words. Of course. And it didn’t matter that it was a bit in soft focus. And the squared comment icon…too rigid and upright for one to say, “I don’t know what I’m doing here!!” The old annotation icon, white page, black print, and just the touch of vivacious red, said, “I’m here! Inscribe me!” Well, not quite like that.
But what about that keywords icon? At first, I thought that the modest grey key against the black background was, well, writerly–non-threatening. And I clung to it for a while. But after a few screw-ups and downloading again, I became attached to the little black dress of it; the tease of the key and the ruby, emerald, and sapphire buttons just waiting. To be launched.
So the almost perfect icons, indeed are there, hidden. But, Keith, angel that he is, pointed the way…
and some others (J, V-K) inspired.
Well…
“you can drill down into the Scrivener resources (ctrl-click on Scrivener itself in the Finder and select “Show Package Contents”), drill down into the Resources folder, and replace the new icons with the old ones (which you can get from Scrivener 1.x in the same way)…”
but but but…when I installed Scriv 2.0 it replaced Scriv 1 in my Applications Folder, so HOW do I drill down into it when it’s not even there??? :-((
On a complete tangent, Mollys Mum, I had a guava margarita in celebration of your new forum avatar.
Ladies!! Ladies!! Calm down. Feel free to use my photo instead. There y` go…sorted.
Vic
@amber: Why thank you. 
But I must point out that that is my MARTINI glass. My margarita glass wouldn’t fit in the avatar.
@vic: You grow more charming and gorgeous with every post. <3
But I STILL don’t know how to drill down into the ghost of Scriv 1, wherever it is…
I found my 1.5 Scrivener in the Trash folder. From there, I followed Keith’s instructions. I also made a separate folder for the few icons I like. If you download a new version of Scrivener, you will have to reinstall the old icons. Also, I wouldn’t do this with all or even a lot of the icons–it’s not clear that they would work like the old ones. Although, I am trying to adapt Vic-K’s photo for the Collapse and Expand icons.
The new Scrivener 2.0 is a great upgrade. Love the new features and I really like the new icon.
Many thanks,
Ron
Okaaaay–I found the old Scrivener .dmg in my downloads folder. So I opened the folder but I am now scared to death. No way am I going to “drag it into my Applications” folder–that’s where the NEW Scrivener lives, thankyouverymuch, and damned if I will mess with it. So: I’ve found the old and beloved Scrivener icon, not sure what to do with it, as I don’t want to replace the new one, but would love to USE that old one somehow.And the other early Scriv icons? Can’t find them, can’t remember what they are…I don’t sound confused, do I?
ctl-click and select show package contents. You are now looking “in” the app.
Can you take it from there?