I'm on about 83.4% ;-)
I think the current icon could definitely be improved, but I'm not keen the cartoon hand/pencil.
The main problem with the current icon is that it looks fiddly and undefined at a small size (which it tends to be on my dock) making it hard to see what it is. Perhaps if it were stylised and abstracted more, so it gave a similar sense without having so many small elements, it would make a big difference and preserve the character/branding of the product. Also the colours, while quite nice, are a bit murky and exacerbate the problem. Again small changes here might make a significant impact.
I vote for evolution not revolution.
On 23 Nov 2004, at 14:22, Noel Jackson wrote:
I agree with everything you say. 100%.
On Nov 23, 2004, at 5:10 PM, Johan Sörensen wrote:
I'm gonna go out on a limb and state that I seem to be one of the few who actually like the icon. And I'm not just saying that because I know the author, but because I think it has a lot of personality, whereas for example a mickey mouse hand holding a pencil just doesn't say "textmate" to me.
That said, the current icon isn't perfect, as someone else said it's a little too low on contrast. But nevertheless it is _the_ textmate icon, changing the brand of textmate, however silly some people seem to think it is, just doesn't feel right. Iterate it. Make it better. But starting over from scratch is, in my humble and insignificant opinion, just stupid.
But in the end, I'm just a user. Even if the icon was changed to a blue ball with little pink faeries flying about in it, I'd still *use* textmate instead of complaining about the icon ;)
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