+1 for these icons going ahead. 1.5 seems like a good milestone for them as well, a halfway to .0 release should really have some UI freshness! I don't see many of the current open tickets changing much in terms of UI (unless plans/priorities were to change of course), so having some visual newness is always a welcome change.
The main issue I see with the current icon set is that they aren't consistent. This is because they are designed by 3-4 different people, all with their own individual styles. So they all look like they belong from separate applications. I strongly disagree with what you suggest Colin about only updating one part at a time (say just the preferences for one release, then the chat window in a future release), as that doesn't solve the issue that I mention above. If (judging by the newly proposed development schedule) 1.5 was to hit beta around Feb-March time and with Lion's suggested release date being around Q2 2011, that gives enough time to see what interface changes Lion will bring, and to hopefully see if these proposed icons would look odd in Lion or not. On 12 Nov 2010, at 19:26, Colin Barrett wrote: > Just had a thought: Lion's coming soon, maybe we should wait until we know > more about what it looks like -- we may want to update some of our interface > textures / colors for it, and having a skilled visual designer working w/ us > would be perfect. > > -Colin > > On Nov 12, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Colin Barrett wrote: > >> On Nov 12, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Robert Vehse wrote: >> >>> So, to cut a long story short: what do you think? How does this set of new >>> icons compare to the current one? Should we consider using it? >>> >>> I'm sure we can further discuss Bogdan's icon set with him, he has been >>> very responsive. >> >> We've had some icon update action going on on this list, and judging from >> how that's gone I expect that doing an icon update would be a pretty big >> task that would involve a *lot* of effort. Perhaps it would be better to >> focus on updating one part of the interface's icons -- I think one of the >> lessons of Adium 1.4 is that we should try to take things in more bite sized >> chunks ;) >> >> That said, bring on the new shiny! >> >> (And seriously, thank you Robby. You've been a complete hero -- don't think >> we'd be here without you.) >> >> -Colin >> >
