As was brought up in the meeting earlier this week, this icon set has promise but is not ready to replace the previous menu bar icon, which all are in agreement could definitely be approved upon.
If the author would like to work on it further, that'd be great and it could evolve into the default menu bar icon. Here are some specific thoughts / suggestions garnered from a number of developers and users, including me, who didn't reply when this thread was initially made: - Overall the set feels overly busy, with too may fine details in a relatively small 22px square space. - Maybe consider fewer, larger plumes for feathers instead of many small ones? - The embossing plays into this; a lower degree of embossing, or removal of it, would decrease the noise - The eyes are too close together, which gives it a cross-eyed appearance. The absolute ratio between it and the dock icon are probably similar, but compensation for the scaling is needed: the pupils need to be farther apart by a good bit and the eyes by probably a pixel in the middle - The lower aspect of the beak could stand to be a bit darker to prevent an appearance of floating - The idle and away states are the worst offenders, but all the icons have visual clutter, especially when a status icon is overlaid onto the image. - The away state is roughly half the size of the others and that's just way too small on this screen. - The closed eyes of the offline state are difficult to see given the size of the icon; a grayed-out version of the standard icon may be simpler and visually superior. - New content visible is cute, but I'm concerned about the way it makes the icon jump. It could potentially be visually jarring. All that is intended as constructive criticism; it'd be great to get this refined and into a future version of Adium. Cheers, Evan On Dec 11, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Adrian Godoroja wrote: > Hi, > > i think this icon set for the menu bar looks way better then our current > default: http://www.flickr.com/photos/izi-fingertips/4203653833/ > > Its sharp, minimalistic and it reassembles Adiumy's shape way better then > our current set, leading to better recognition,... > > I'd propose to switch our current set with this one, asking the permission of > the author to use it, rename and so on... > > What do you think? > > Thanks a lot, > Adrian. >