As a member of the 'old guard' I have to say that I very much DISAGREE with the overuse of the duck (and I think Evan and Colin would probably agree with me as well although I'll not put words in their mouth).
What I interpreted to be at issue was whether or not it was ok to use the duck in place of a person. On this issue, I don't so much have a problem with it. As the others said, it's part of our persona. It wasn't that EVERY icon should contain a duck, it was just that we shouldn't remove all uses of it in the prefs just because it wasn't a person. That said, I don't have any objection to trying to enforce consistency, but I also don't think using the outline of the duck is going to be confusing. The duck is indeed part of the personality of the app, but just like any bit of branding, it loses all meaning if it's overused. I'm very much against the idea of making all of these icons duck-inclusive (or even most of them). -Eric On Feb 26, 2012, at 12:23 PM, Robert Vehse wrote: > I am still not a fan of every second icon in Adium involving a duck and > having ducks represent people but it appears the old guard insists... > > Robbie > > > Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > >> Von: Bogdan Mihaiciuc <bogd...@live.com> >> Datum: 26. Februar 2012 17:44:07 MEZ >> An: Robert Vehse <robert.ve...@gmail.com> >> Betreff: Re: Adium icon update >> >> I will use tiffs then. >> >> These are the first icons, except notification. >> <Adium_1.png> >> >> The badged Block, Add, Unblock all look like Account preferences, sans the >> background silhouette. >> >> I'm still not sure about notification, but this is what I have so far. >> >> <Adium_2.png> >> >> I still need to do the smaller sizes for most of these. >> >> -- Bogdan > > > Am 21.02.2012 um 19:33 schrieb Colin Barrett: > >> I'm pretty much in agreement with Evan here -- eager to see the next round >> of icons. >> >> -Colin
