[Adium-devl] EMD icon examination

[Christopher Forsythe]

Not badging it leads to theming of the menu icon via status icon  
packs with less code if I remember right from looking. Theming of the  
icon is something folks have been wanting, but at the same time I  
don't think the current menu item duck looks like a black blob with a  
drop of paint dropped on it.

I dunno, I just dislike this idea.

Chris

On Jan 5, 2006, at 2:32 AM, Mac-arena the Bored Zo wrote:

> stubborn as I am, I've stuck by the idea of badging the status icon  
> onto the Duck. I'm fairly sure that there's at least one app that  
> uses an Aqua bubble in the status bar (Evan pointed out Proteus,  
> but I'm not sure that that was the one I was thinking of). for us  
> to use essentially the same thing, without any differentiation, as  
> our default menu icon would be confusing, IMO.
>
> so I'm still working on the badge idea, now with a twist: the  
> badge, if larger than one quadrant of the Duck, is scaled to that  
> size.
>
> unsized (iBubbles, Gems, Chat Bubbles):
> <emd-unsized-ibubbles.png>
> <emd-unsized-gems.png>
> <emd-unsized-chatbubbles.png>
>
> lower-right quadrant:
> <emd-lrquadrant-ibubbles.png>
> <emd-lrquadrant-gems.png>
> <emd-lrquadrant-chatbubbles.png>
>
> I also had played with putting the icon in the center, but this  
> only looked any good with Gems:
> <new-emd-centeredgems.png>
>
> of course, that was before I started resizing it. I expect that the  
> lower-right corner would still look better, though.
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