Icons for Adium 1.4 (Revision 4)

[Jordan]

Oh... last I commented on the voice icon I hadn't realized that it
(the +) was referring to the voice status on IRC. For some reason I
was thinking of voice as in voice chat, not voice status on IRC, which
is why I was clueless to the "+" being representative.

Now that I know what it refers to, Peter has a point - since '+' has
been used in so many IRC apps over the years to represent 'voice', it
does seem rather commonplace and accepted - seemingly to the point
where any IRC user will understand it.

Furthermore, I'm inclined to believe that few people are going to use
IRC support in Adium that haven't used it in the past primarily
because even the addition of an IRC account is so different from that
of other IM protocols. Because of this, it seems like a commonly
accepted icon such as '+' might be best for consistency and
recognition.

Jordan



On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:32 PM, George Lambrou
<georgelambrou721 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Didn't see the lips/mouth part; I'll try that! Speaking of which, I'm only
> going to post the icons I actually update from this point forward to make
> them easier to review, and keep numerous copies of the same images from
> cluttering Downloads folders.
>
> -George Lambrou
> On Oct 20, 09, at 8.13 pm, Eric Richie wrote:
>
> On Oct 20, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:
>
> On 2009-10-20, at 11:39, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>
> Peter, how do you feel about Voice 1 over Voice 5?
>
> It's not clear (a wave emanating from a point? a single eye?), and as stated
> before, a shield doesn't make much sense for voice, which confers a
> privilege but no real powers.
>
> + isn't particularly expressive either, but it at least has history (and the
> IRC protocol itself) behind it, so a lot of users will recognize it as
> voice. For that reason and for not using a shield, I consider voice 5 the
> best voice icon so far.
>
> What about something that might confer the idea of 'voice' in a less cryptic
> way?  Maybe something along the lines of a pair of lips or a mouth,
> megaphone, speaker, microphone... Would that be a clearer direction to look?
> -Eric
>