In all, I'm pretty happy with the results of the vote. I was surprised the two current icons for OTR got the most votes of the three (even if just by a small margin). I find they look cheap and plasticky.
Plus, I very much disagree with the megaphone imagery for notify.png. It may suit the word "notify", but it seems misplaced for the function that this icon name actually represents: nudge (MSN) / buzz (Yahoo) (or think of "poking" on Facebook). Am 24.01.2011 um 04:07 schrieb Ryan Govostes: > I am a little surprised by the results; I find that many icons that are quite > similar have very different scores. Maybe others feel more strongly about > these? > > emoticon32.png; info.png; pref-general.png; AddressBook.png; > emoticon32_transparent.png; remove.png [removed results] This does not surprise me. While the icons are similar in their imagery, I find some aesthetically far more pleasing. For instance, in the case of emoticon32.png, I find the current icon looks a bit cheap, plasticky while the red mouth on George's feels a bit odd. > <snip> > > 1. While Bogdan's pref-appearance.png is similar to the Appearance preference > pane icon, the original icon (two feathers of different colors) is something > unique to Adium that I would miss if it were replaced. I agree that the feather nicely alludes to Adium's icon of the dock. However, I think Bogdan's icon simply looks better. (I didn't notice it takes cue from the "Appearances" icon in OS X's System Preferences, heh.) > 2. I've always liked the use of Adiumy's silhouette in place of the shadowy > Mac OS X man. It too is a nice touch that builds a better identity for our > app. As with the feather I also like idea of using Adiumy here. Nevertheless, I chose Bogdan's icon. Here's why: - I think it looks better. - Having selected Bogdan's icons for AddContact.png, block.png and unblock.png, I felt it was more consistent. Now, if someone came up with _beautiful_ icons for all these that use Adiumy silhouettes, I'd probably prefer those. > 3. I like George's pref-mention.png icon metaphor better than Bogdan's (which > won), because it indicates what the feature does --- highlight messages. I actually voted for Bogdan's here, but now I agree with you. > 4. I'm not a fan of any of the pref-status.png metaphors. The old sign one > sort of made sense, and I understand the "do-not-disturb" sign that Bogdan > was going for. I don't have a suggestion; it seems like it is a tricky one. It is tricky. Of the three, Bogdan's seems the most logical one to me. > 5. For pref-contactList.png, I'd like to see a combination of Bogdan's and > George's work. I'd be interested to know what it is you like in each specifically. > 6. For pref-advanced.png, George's take on the current version loses the joke > that made the original make sense --- the fact that the chalkboard says > E=mc^2. That said, I do like his icon and I'd approve of it anyway. I also think it looks okay, better than the original even but I agree it doesn't make much sense symbolically so this result really surprised me. > 7. For linkToolbar.png, George's is closer to the icon used iWork, but I'd > prefer the arrow facing to the right so as not to make it seem like an undo > button or reply or something like that. Bogdan's is also nice. Colour-wise, yes, it's closer to the link icon in iWork. I prefer Bogdan's and I thought it was a good idea to break with the chain link cliché but it seems more than half of the voters are of a different opinion. > -- Ryan Cheers, Robbie
