Icon update proposal

[Colin Barrett]

-1. I don't think anyone is going to be confused (have they been confused so far?), and we'd lose an important part of what makes Adium Adium if we ditched the duck outlines.

-Colin

On Feb 21, 2012, at 7:41 AM, Paul Wilde wrote:

> +1 on using regular 'people' over Adiumy for Unblock/Block/Personal.
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> Using Adiumy is fine for application specific actions like setting all the preferences for the *application*, but using it for actions that 100% involve a person or your user account could possibly come across as confusing to some.
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> It might be a matter of taste, but at least if you go with generic people the complaints will be less.
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> On 21 Feb 2012, at 15:07, Robert Vehse wrote:
>>> - I dislike using generic people icons instead of the Adiumy outline.  The two are equally understandable; the Adiumy outline is Adium personality.
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>> I agree on the premise of keeping Adium's distinct personality and the duck definitely is an essential part of that.
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>> However, in the case of the particular four icons involving a contact (AddContact.png, block.png, unblock.png, pref-accounts.png) I am in favour of using Bogdan's icons. Two reasons:
>> 1. I don't like the idea of a duck representing a person.
>> 2. Of the four icons, only two currently have the duck (AddContact.png) whereas the other two involve a chat bubble so that's not great with regards to consistency.
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>> I can ask Bogdan whether he can come up renditions with the Adiumy outline if that is preferred regardless.
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>>> - I would prefer if pref-personal used an Adiumy outline for consistency
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>> Again, I don't like the idea of a duck representing a person. It also doesn't match the other icons from Bogdan's set.
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