158154 - better icon for Appearance

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

i guess i'd prefer something other than the lightswitch icon for the Appearance
icon. :)

Comment 1

[Stephane Moureau]

I've made a new design for the Preferences dialogs, with the help/remarks of
Chimera board members.
If you want, as they seem to be well received on Chimera Board, at least better
than by the developers themselves, don't hesitate to ask me.
They are free of copyright, I made them myself.
http://www.stocksraiders.com/chimera/

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Stephane, this bug is about changing the icon. Your mockups don't appear to have
any icons.

Comment 3

[Stephane Moureau]

Check the Latest Version section, only the Preferences link has all of them.

http://www.stocksraiders.com/chimera/PrefWithIcons06.jpg

Comment 4

[Stephane Moureau]

I've modified the main page, the icons can be downloaded.
http://www.stocksraiders.com/chimera/

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

I don't know if I'm entirely enthusiastic about those, with all due respect.
While Chimera's graphics thus far all have a unified and cohesive appearance,
those seem kind of all-over-the-place to me. (A coffee mill for Scripts and
Plug-Ins? I guess that makes sense for Java, but not much else. And what does
the heart signify on Languages? I don't understand that.)

Comment 6

[Stephane Moureau]

Greg:
Heart is favorite languages order to display a page content, like the heart in
the Finder toolbar.
Script, I've tryed to make an AppleScript icon (S) with a coffee bean or a
sprocket but the icons are too small, they appear like a dot...

For the all-over-the-place, I think we should have :
- preferences icons very colorful, like in Finder, Mail, etc.
- browser toolbar (go back, forward, etc) very light, like those used now in
Chimera, to avoid disturbing the browsing/reading as pages are more and more
overloaded.

From the feedback received, most like them different (colorful), some (1+you)
prefer them unified (all blue)... Always the same, no one can please everyone.

Anyway, we can customize them with ChimerIcon, etc.

And I'll not spend more time on this as the developers don't seem to be
interested by what we (ChimeraBoard) have done until now, layouts or icons.

I'll wait a direct request/demand to enhance or modify them or to try other
ideas/designs.

Comment 7

[Stephane Moureau]

A poll "Icons unified or colorful?" has been opened, all details on first post.

http://www.eternaltedium.com/cgi-bin/chimeraboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=3d46923c62b4ffff;act=ST;f=1;t=73

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

actually, what i was originally looking for was a replacement icon for the main
Appearance category itself. (although these other suggestions for the
sub-categories look nifty. :)

i had a thought for Appearance: how about the mozilla mascot observing himself
in a mirror?

Comment 9

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Stephane: we appreciate the efforts you've put into designing the prefs panels,
and icons for them. However, we need to maintain an overall aethetic theme in
Chimera, and, currently, that has to match the blue icon theme of the toolbars
and splash screen. Unfortunately your icons look rather colourfull and jarring
next to the rest of the icons in the application.

Comment 10

[Lauri Kieksi]

Attachment: Proposed icon for Appearance prefpane

My suggestion for the Appearance prefpane icon.

Comment 11

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

lauri, that looks good, thanks! it seems a bit small for my eyes, however --then
again, i'm not sure what the appropriate icon size should be for pref icons...
(again, i do like the image you produced.)

Comment 12

[Lauri Kieksi]

The maximum size is 32x32, I used 30x30 (the same size as the light switch icon
that's now in place in the prefs).

Comment 13

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

what does an eye have to do with appearance? maybe i'm missing something? ;)

Comment 14

[Lauri Kieksi]

...appearance settings affect how the user *sees* webpages... :)

Comment 15

[Lauri Kieksi]

Attachment: Improved Appearance icon suggestion

Adjusted the blue of the eye to better match Chimera's blue theme, thus making
the previous icon attachment obsolete.

Comment 16

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

Attachment: more what i was thinking

a tiff from ugo santana, more along the lines of what i was thinking.

objections?

Comment 17

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

over to simon (with his permission).

Comment 18

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

since attachment 95259 [details] was already checked in, simon said it was okay to mark
this resolved.

Comment 19

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

vrfy'd fixed with 2002.08.21.05 bits.