-1. I don't think anyone is going to be confused (have they been confused so far?), and we'd lose an important part of what makes Adium Adium if we ditched the duck outlines.
-Colin On Feb 21, 2012, at 7:41 AM, Paul Wilde wrote: > +1 on using regular 'people' over Adiumy for Unblock/Block/Personal. > > Using Adiumy is fine for application specific actions like setting all the > preferences for the *application*, but using it for actions that 100% involve > a person or your user account could possibly come across as confusing to some. > > It might be a matter of taste, but at least if you go with generic people the > complaints will be less. > > On 21 Feb 2012, at 15:07, Robert Vehse wrote: >>> - I dislike using generic people icons instead of the Adiumy outline. The >>> two are equally understandable; the Adiumy outline is Adium personality. >> >> I agree on the premise of keeping Adium's distinct personality and the duck >> definitely is an essential part of that. >> >> However, in the case of the particular four icons involving a contact >> (AddContact.png, block.png, unblock.png, pref-accounts.png) I am in favour >> of using Bogdan's icons. Two reasons: >> 1. I don't like the idea of a duck representing a person. >> 2. Of the four icons, only two currently have the duck (AddContact.png) >> whereas the other two involve a chat bubble so that's not great with regards >> to consistency. >> >> I can ask Bogdan whether he can come up renditions with the Adiumy outline >> if that is preferred regardless. >> >>> - I would prefer if pref-personal used an Adiumy outline for consistency >> >> Again, I don't like the idea of a duck representing a person. It also >> doesn't match the other icons from Bogdan's set. > >
