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vixalien / sticky

A simple sticky notes app for GNOME
https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.vixalien.sticky
MIT License
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New app icon #5

Closed daudix closed 1 year ago

daudix commented 1 year ago

The current icon is quite good but it doesn't follow the GNOME icon design guidelines, the app itself looks absolutely beautiful, but needs a nicer icon.

After some work and review from the GNOME Design Team I have a new icon, hope you will like it :D

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vixalien commented 1 year ago

I agree that the app needs a new icon but personally I'm not quite sure about the looks of the new icon, since it looks more involved (what's the meaning of the light bulb for example, and usually one does not PIN sticky notes with a regular pin, they just stick onto any surface...)

in short, the new icon does not look like regular sticky notes so I'm not quite convinced lol

daudix commented 1 year ago

I agree that the app needs a new icon but personally I'm not quite sure about the looks of the new icon, since it looks more involved (what's the meaning of the light bulb for example, and usually one does not PIN sticky notes with a regular pin, they just stick onto any surface...)

in short, the new icon does not look like regular sticky notes so I'm not quite convinced lol

Well, I agree that pinned sticky note is a bit odd, it were made mostly because all notes apps use pretty much same concept of sticky note and a pen, so to be a bit different from them it have the pin, which is something new. I have seen it on one of the reference images

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In short, pin is here mostly to make icon unique

About the bulb, it's purpose is to fill the note with something to not keep the icon boring, often ideas are visualized as a bulb, so it fits nicely, as one of the use cases for this app is to write down sudden ideas

If you want, we can iterate on the icon a bit ;)

what changed?

Fixed the gradient on the pin :P

vixalien commented 1 year ago

I get it, but the icon feels so complicated (but unique). this means that people will not get the idea it conveys the first time Imo.

from the reference images, the one with the pin is better although if I must admit, the one with the paper clip is good too. the others look boring and normal...

what do you think?

daudix commented 1 year ago

idk if the icon is over complicated, imo it have a "normal" amount of detail, not sure if the paper clip will work, as to make it recognizable at 32x32 size it should be huge

daudix commented 1 year ago

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vixalien commented 1 year ago

hmm I think it's kinda too large. I'm nitpicking at this point. maybe we need a third party to review this (preferably GNOME/Design team...) @exalm what do you think

daudix commented 1 year ago

hmm I think it's kinda too large. I'm nitpicking at this point. maybe we need a third party to review this (preferably GNOME/Design team...)

GNOME Design team reviewed it, after some tweaks they are ok with it (the pin one)

https://app.element.io/#/room/#appicondesign:gnome.org

alice-mkh commented 1 year ago

What do I have to do with design team?

vixalien commented 1 year ago

What do I have to do with design team?

nevermind