New icon is off-style

[bertob]

The new icon is unfortunately a step back in terms of style, issues include:

• Weird, non-geometric shape
• Not a physical object
• Clock hands are very thin and dark on a partly transparent background, making them hard to see in the shell
• Generally unclear what it's supposed to be, it's trying to do too many things at the same time in terms of metaphor

The circlular clock with a huge F background could work, but then I'd drop the cutout and just do a regular circular shape and drop the list thing in the background. That said, I don't know what was wrong with the previous alarm clock metaphor, I think that worked quite well as it was :)

[daudix]

Fully agree, and also it now don't follows GNOME HIG, previous icon is one of the best icons (in GNOME space) in my opinion!

[xscd]

I have to say I also really liked the old icon. Seemed more in-line with the GNOME HIG.

[lakoliu]

There was certainly nothing wrong with the previous icon. I changed the icon because I released a non-open-source version of Furtherance for Windows, which required a new icon, and I think it's better to have cross-platform consistency. I disagree that most of those things listed are issues, however, if everyone wants the old icon back I will change it back. I will just change the colors to match the new purple theme.

Thank you everyone for your input! I really do appreciate it, it helps me make better decisions that improve the experience of the Furtherance community.