Daniel, that is beautiful work, thank you. I have shown it to Otto Greenslade, the lead visual designer at Canonical, and we have a few comments.
First, the Dash applications lens icon on the bag is vivid, and has a 3-D inset appearance. This doesn't really match the idea that a bag would be made of thin material. (And USC lets you install things that aren't applications.) I don't think using an Ubuntu logo on the bag would be "confusing" as Jeremy suggested. The only issue (which may be positive or negative) is that it's quite common: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Android_Market.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_Marketplace_for_Mobile_icon.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chrome_Web_Store.png Next, as far as I know, the four places where this icon will be seen most often are, in order: (a) the Unity launcher, against a background that averages the colors used in the icon (bug 838050); (b) the Dash, against a background that is some greyish color, by default greyish-purple; (c) developer.ubuntu.com, against a white background; (d) "Get this on Ubuntu" or similar buttons on software vendor Web sites, against a background yet to be decided (possibly black). So the second issue to tackle is that we can't tell whether the icon fixes *this* bug without testing it against (a) whatever orange tint the Unity launcher generates for it. There's more of a difference with your icon as it is <http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/8307/workspace1004.png> than with the current icon, but that would change as you removed the Dash applications lens from the bag. To test it, enter this at a terminal: "sudo cp your-icon.svg /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/softwarecenter.svg && sudo gtk- update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor && software-center-gtk3". Third, rotating the bag to face straight on does make the icon more distinct at small sizes. However, it also makes the icon look less like a shopping bag at any size (it could just as easily be a suitcase or satchel). And it also means the white sparkles would disappear completely against (c) a white background, because none of the inside of the bag is visible to act as a backdrop for them. So, maybe we should use the straight-on perspective only for the smallest sizes, and keep the angle for larger sizes? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/834204 Title: New Software Center icon unclear at normal size To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/834204/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
