I totally agree. The new proposal looks great as an image, but I
would definitely not want it as an icon.
I really think an application icon should carry an identity, should show a
concept, be clear and identifiable, and work for all sizes.
In this regards, I think the proposal is way to generic even if bringing
back the color of the old icon is better. But it doesn't work at all on
small sizes, and I find it way too complicated even for large sizes.
Indeed I really like the old one because I find it modern, carrying the
photo app concept but stylized though clearly identifiable (avoiding to be
mixed up with other photo app icons) and it should work for all sizes as it
is not cluttered as the new one.
All the identity of the icon is in its rainbow diaphragm which tells
everything. On the new icon, this identity is completely reduced (and
becoming really hard to notice on small sizes) due to all the black around
it which so much space!
Indeed, taking a look again at the preview, I find the big one the left
nice as an image, but even the biggest icon on the top of the right column
is completely unidentifiable for me.
On 13 September 2013 08:45, María Leandro <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I think the image is cool, however, problem is that when it goes to a
> really small icon the meaning gets completely lost. No idea if making the
> diaphragm a bit bigger or making thinner the borders of the lens could
> help, however, from an user point of view, the small version wouldn't be
> easy to recognize on a menu.
>
> As almost everyone, I think the work is impressive, however, not sure if
> it would work for a desktop environment.
>
>
> 2013/9/12 Tobias Ellinghaus <[email protected]>
>
>> Am Donnerstag, 12. September 2013, 20:02:24 schrieb Moritz Moeller:
>> > On 12/9/13 7:53 PM, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote:
>> > > I like the rendering from a technical point of view, but I think that
>> > > icons
>> > > shouldn't be photo realistic images but simple icons. So I am against
>> > > using
>> > > something like this for darktable.
>> >
>> > Well, many apps use images with a photoreal touch for icons these days.
>> >
>> > However, I agree that things could be simplified.
>> > Once everyone agrees on how the the new icon should look, I can offer to
>> > do a vectorization (a manual one) of the rendering, in Inkscape.
>>
>> What about keeping the icon we have? I like it.
>>
>> > .mm
>>
>> Tobias
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