New Mozilla Thunderbird Application Icons UnveiledTuesday April 20th, 2004Colin Ramsay writes: "Jon Hicks has revealed the new Thunderbird icons for the first time. Living up to the high standard set by his Firefox icons, they will be available shortly in Windows builds. OS X will follow soon." Update: Steven Garrity, head of the Mozilla Visual Identity Team has written a weblog post about the new Thunderbird icons. Wow, those look fantastic! Kudos to all involved! Good thing you got in the first reply -- you're absolutely correct!! Now I am just dying with anticipation as to when we'll see it on: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ I can't wait! Creates them in OS X, yet they're available on Windows first. Look great, though. Wow, impressive. I'd be interested on his perception on which was easier to create In Fireworks (firefox) or Illustrator CS (TB)? I'm in awe. (It may just be even a tick better than the Firefox icon!) Is it just me, or does the bird look slightly... exhausted? As if it's just dragged the mail (including 500 spams) from your front door to your armchair. It looks like it's slumped over the letter rather than carrying it. Maybe a slight change in posture would fix it? That said, I do really like the look of the icon. Very visually appealing. 32x32 dosen't look like a bird at all. :x Looks good! I'd like to get a 128x128 px version so I could put it on my site (http://www.mozthemes.tk), for my Thunderbird themes. Does this mean Thunderbird's getting an updated "About" window too? Doesn't this mean it's time to update those two-month-old "blogging project" links? Bart Decrem seems to have broken his blog so that link is 404 currently anyway... Someone really should change those. But I just use gemal's blogupdate anyway: http://www.gemal.dk/mozilla/blogupdates.html IMO the new artwork should have been hold on 'til the next Tb release to provide more shock and surprise like it was done with Firefox... Where is the "Thunder"? I also agree with "stonedyak" above that the bird seems a bit small in comparison to the envelope; this is probably needed for the icon to show an envelope, but I still want to see the Bird and I want Thunder if possible. As I said the design is still very nice and it is well done Thanks if you crank your speakers up when you load it, you can hear the thunder I know lightening and thunder go hand in hand but why is it that people are always looking for lightening in images when something is talking about thunder? I still like the Mozilla products to be named as "chick" (a small bird) rather than a full grown "bird". This way we get "Fire Chick" and "Thunder Chick"! Do not forget our favourate bird, the Chicken. If the term bird was chosen to carry envelopes, I think they were thinking of a Pigeon so may be "Thunder Pijon" would be more appropriate. This way every body is happy. Thank god for the FireSomething extension :) where is the new icon *file* -- the preview is nice, but gimme the URL to dowload the .ico!! The icon is here: http://www.actsofvolition.com/images/thunderbirdicon.png In modern operating systems you can have PNGs as icons. :) ok, that'll work for now, but what I really want is the 16x16 version without dropshaow. so really I want the final .ico file It's great that a lot of thought and effort is going into the presentation aspects of Thunderbird. I would encourage developers to also review the basic functionality of email programs, for example reading mail. When receiving html pages if the background is a dark colour then you can't read the body of the email bug 31052 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31052 As esther@formerly-netscape.com.tld states ".......dark blue background makes the text I typed very hard to see. We need this fixed." This bug is still status new Apologies if this only occurs in moz but I suspect it affects Thunderbird as well. #18 Re: Great new icons - how about basic functionalitby Squire72 Wednesday April 21st, 2004 3:41 AM Seems to me... the people working on graphics and the people working on the functionality aren't the same folks... It's a lot like yelling at the dog becaise the cat peed in your shoes. I think this isn't the right place for your bug-report. If everyone will post his favorite bug than we have a very long list of bugs. I think the developers will develop the whole application inclusive design and email funktionality, so don't be angry if they do something for the design. They will also refine on email funktionality. Or how about getting the person sending the email to send it using a sensible combination of colours? If they have to choose a dark background, then they should be using white text. Also, try the View > Message Body As > Plain Text option, works well in the suite. That is fricking sweet. I just hope we can get these in linux soon as well! |