167431 - New Mozilla icon is ugly and out of place

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel Herring]

I just downloaded Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020908
In previous versions, the program icon was a blue "sea-monkey" like thing.  Now,
it appears to be some red "Mozilla" head against a light blue background.

My claim that the icon is ugly may be tenuous.  However, it clashes with the
standard Win98 desktop and also several Linux ones.

The claim that it is out of place seems more substantial.  Mozilla ships with
two default themes - classic and modern.  In neither of these is red a
frequently used color.  Icon colors should match a program's default color
scheme; being "cute" degrades the mental association between an icon and its
program and should be avoided.

Yes, the old icon may have needed some work, but the new one is worse.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

intentional change. not a bug.

Comment 2

[Daniel Herring]

intentional or not, its still a flaw

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> wontfix

Since Mozilla is only for testing (not for End-Users) you can easy change the
icon if you don't like the new one.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 182507 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Brett Knights]

"Only for Testing"? What are we testing? That mozilla works? So its purpose is 
to allow us to test it? 
I thought its purpose was to be a standards based extensible web browser.

And when we ask our bosses to test it and they see the red dinosaur head and 
they say "well it looks like a toy and it isn't from M$ so I'm afraid not..." 
does that mean the test failed?

Comment 6

[Brett Knights]

And the justification for not making the red dinosaur head on the icon match 
the Netscape Comminicator icon on the running program? (both of which are a 
step back from the gecko icon) At least be consistently ugly.