577891 - Thunderbird application icon is an undistinguished white circle

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[AllenJB]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100710 Gentoo Namoroka/3.6.4
Build Identifier: 3.1

The new Thunderbird application icon is completely useless because it fails to be a unique, easily recognizable graphic to represent the application on menus and window lists.

The icon appears to be designed only for viewing at 256x256 resolution, yet most locations where it's used are likely using 32x32 and below. When reduced to these sizes, the very light colors are not clear and the icon simply appears as an almost-white circle

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Icon is basically a white circle

Expected Results:  
Icon is an easily recognizable, easily distinguished graphic that makes quickly picking out Thunderbird from a menu, icon list or window list really easy.

Running mail-client/thunderbird-3.1 on Gentoo Linux.

Use flags: USE="alsa bindist crypt -custom-optimization dbus -gnome -ldap libnotify lightning -mozdom startup-notification -system-sqlite -wifi"

Comment 1

[Andreas Nilsson (:andreasn)]

Do you have a screenshot so I can compare with my own system?

Comment 2

[AllenJB]

Attachment: Thunderbird icon as it appears on my task bar

Comment 3

[Andreas Nilsson (:andreasn)]

Oh, that's the Thunderbird unstable icon for the Lanikai series (up to 3.1).
3.1 stable is now out, so I'll mark this as Wontfix