Icons for Adium 1.4 (Revision 4)

[Evan Schoenberg, M.D.]

On Oct 20, 2009, at 10:02 PM, Jordan wrote:

> 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.

I don't believe I've been in an IRC chat which used voice in years;  
that's a statement not of its prevalence but rather of how  
infrequently I use IRC. If that's a known icon for voice, we should  
use it in some form.

-Evan