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Icons of Unstable Apps Design #112

Closed eaglersdeveloper closed 5 years ago

eaglersdeveloper commented 5 years ago

Google has long using different icons for different versions of Chrome. Сorresponding labels are added to Beta and Dev icons:

GNOME has also recently begun to unify icons of unstable applications:

2018-10-27 15-22-47

How do you like it, Sam?

unstable-apps-icons

Each state of the unstable application corresponds to colors of the traffic light (except Nightly). Nightly blue as the evening sky.

snwh commented 5 years ago

Words should never appear in icons

It's bad design and a translation nightmare.

Yes (as one of the folks at GNOME working on this) there is a style for unstable apps coming, but that's going to be handled by the shell and not in icons themselves.

This isn't something to be concerned with in the icons.