Beautify MacVim's dmg installer background and volume icon #1540
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The existing background image for the MacVim dmg installer was quite old. It did not have a 2x retina version, and design-wise it showed a redundant MacVim logo when there's already a draggable MacVim app with the same icon. Update the background image for a cleaner refreshed design. Image was designed by Jason Long (@jasonlong). Also, change the dmg's volume icon. We were using the MacVim logo as the volume icon, but when mounting the image, it could lead to a confusing state where the user sees a MacVim logo on the desktop, thinking it's the app itself, but it's actually a dmg volume. Instead, use a new designed volume icon with the macOS disk image icon overlaid with Vim's logo/color for styling to make it clear it's a volume, not an app.
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We added a new step in macvim-dev#1540 to generate the image / icon set for the dmg installer during the dmg build step, but the intermediate files were erroneously placed in the same folder as the one being copied over, causing them to be in the final dmg as well. Just use a scratch folder instead.
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We added a new step in macvim-dev#1540 to generate the image / icon set for the dmg installer during the dmg build step, but the intermediate files were erroneously placed in the same folder as the one being copied over, causing them to be in the final dmg as well. Just use a scratch folder instead.
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The existing background image for the MacVim dmg installer was quite old. It did not have a 2x retina version, and design-wise it showed a redundant MacVim logo when there's already a draggable MacVim app with the same icon. Update the background image for a cleaner refreshed design. Image was designed by Jason Long (@jasonlong).
Also, change the dmg's volume icon. We were using the MacVim logo as the volume icon, but when mounting the image, it could lead to a confusing state where the user sees a MacVim logo on the desktop, thinking it's the app itself, but it's actually a dmg volume. Instead, use a new designed volume icon with the macOS disk image icon overlaid with Vim's logo/color for styling to make it clear it's a volume, not an app.