Bug#404882: new iceweasel icon is confusing at small sizes

Eric Dorland eric at debian.org
Sun Jan 7 06:12:22 CET 2007


* Cesar Martinez Izquierdo (listas at ono.com) wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 2.0.0.1+dfsg-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> (Note: I've reported a similar bug against Icedove: #404880).
> The new iceweasel icon is quite nice, but it is very
> confusing at small sizes.
> 
> My gnome-panel size is set on 24 pixels, and at this size it's
> impossible to distinguish the shapes of the icon. The
> only thing I can see is a white spot on a green 'thing', so it's
> quite hard to guess that this icon represents a web browser.
> 
> Moreover, the new icedove icon looks quite similar at this size,
> so it's very difficult to distinguish them. This is a problem 
> for shortcuts and also for the taskbar. Just try to open 5 iceweasel
> windows and icedove, look at the taskbar and try to distinguish
> them in a fast glance.
> 
> Please, provide an icon with clearer shapes, and which colour
> is different from Icedove one.
> 
> Other applications' icons look OK at this size (examples: nautilus,
> gnome-terminal, amsn, kmail, rythmbox, gedit, etc). I can provide
> some snapshots.

I kind of have to agree with Cesar here. They look a little indistinct
at small sizes, and while the unified color scheme seemed cool, I
guess it does have a downside. Perhaps unicko would be willing to give
each icon a more unique color scheme (blue for iceweasel, leave the
green for icedove and red for iceape?) and perhaps add a bit more
contrast to the borders because it blends a bit too much into a light
background. Hope that doesn't sound too ungrateful. 

PS please preserve the CC line when replying.

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