[Adium-devl] Updates on the Betts toolbar icons

[Christopher Forsythe]

On Aug 2, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Aug 2, 2006, at 08:52:20, Colin Barrett wrote:
>> Attached is a zip with the new icons, direct from Betts himself.
>
> Awesome. :D
>
> My only things with the status icon are:
>
> (1) Perhaps a "we will return at" clock would be better? (Like  
> this: <http://office-supplies.us.com/images_products/48632_big.gif> )

That's hard to relay in a way that's useful at that small of a image  
size, and in a way that people who do not know what a "we will  
return" clock is without typing it out to them.

> (2) I still keep thinking those green things on the ground are  
> leaves. I'm not sure that anything about this can be done at  
> current resolution (besides changing the color), but perhaps we  
> should have high-resolution versions, at least for the future? I  
> imagine a 128×128 288dpi version long into the next generation of  
> displays.
>

It looks like feathers to me.

> Also, feature idea: Change all the Duck icons to some other Duck  
> color depending on the user's selected Dock icon. We could add a  
> key to the Dock icon format (if there isn't one already) that  
> specifies its Duck color as a hue angle (0=red, as usual), then use  
> some Core Image magic to munge all the toolbar icons accordingly.
>
>> As far as my thoughts, the only thing about using a clock for away  
>> is the fact that AOL (and earlier versions of Adium) use a clock  
>> to represent idle.
>
> Point.


Those prefs control away and idle, so even if a user sees it as an  
idle icon it'd work I believe.