769256 - The IRC icon doesn't represent IRC

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Chat Core :: IRC, defect)

Description

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

The current IRC icon in Thunderbird really doesn't make me think of IRC. :) The two bubbles [1] is also confusingly similar to the "three bubbles" icon used to represent a chat in general.

Unfortunately there's no "official" IRC icon (and most of the ones out there I haven't been a fan of). But something a bit different here seems like it would be beneficial.

[1] http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/chat/protocols/irc/icons/prpl-irc-48.png
[2] http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/chat/themes/chat-16.png

Comment 1

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

Maybe a speech bubble with a "#" inside? That's the closest I can think of to an IRC-like symbol.

Comment 2

[Andreas Nilsson (:andreasn)]

That could work, and it also seems to be the most common that pops up when doing a Google Images search for "irc icon"
https://www.google.com/search?q=irc+icon&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=7YLxT_n8CcqS-wbmrZ2vAw&biw=1366&bih=648&sei=84LxT-7DHIPd4QTHmPzQDQ

Comment 3

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

(In reply to Jim Porter (:squib) from comment #1)
> Maybe a speech bubble with a "#" inside? That's the closest I can think of
> to an IRC-like symbol.

I agree that that's probably the closest we're going to get. I think we should run with that!

Comment 4

[Andreas Nilsson (:andreasn)]

Sounds good to me! Icon coming.

Comment 6

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

Alex -- do you have any thoughts here? If we have no idea what would look "more IRC" I suggest we just close this.

Comment 7

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

I'm currently going through the rebuild of the account setup, which will unify and include the chat account creation dialog.
I will take care of updating those icons if needed.
We can close this bug

Comment 8

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

That sounds great, thank you!