I think it's worse than just that the icon doesn't convey the program's
purpose: it looks way too much like a flatbed scanner. I appreciate the
difficulty in crafting a descriptive visual representation of a BT
client, but IMHO an icon should at least be sufficiently unique so as to
avoid mistaking it for other apps of completely unrelated purposes.
That's where Vuze's frog for example is better (as long as you're not
into Frogger clones). I've been running Transmission whenever I'm logged
in for years now, and I still occasionally wonder why I have a scanning
app running, when in fact it's just Transmission's... I'm-not-sure-what-
it-is.

I realize this is not a very constructive argument so long as I don't
have anything better to suggest in the current icon's place, but I
promise I'll start thinking of one right now and hopefully come up with
ideas some day.

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