I guess I'm in the minority -- I like Jeff's best, although I'd suggest a few changes. The bird needs a little something to give it a bit more "life", and I would change the bland purple clock into a tan-coloured sundial.

But that's just me.

It's funny, the only two people to have commented here (Gnu and myself) happen to like Jeff's the best while that's far behind in the voting there.

There are some practical reasons why it's the best one. For one thing, it sports the yellow color that would go with something called Sunbird and could serve as distinguishing from the Firefox red and Thunderbird blue.

So why the decision to close voting to only those contributing in that particular thread?

I was curious ... why would Mark draw a logo that resembles a hummingbird? So I Googled.

And lo and behold, I found this at http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Trochilidae:

"The Aztec god Huitzilopochtli is often depicted as a hummingbird."

And who was Huitzilopochtli? "In Aztec mythology, Huitzilopchtli, also spelled Uitzilopochtli ("hummingbird of the south" or "he of the south" or "hummingbird on the left"), was a god of war and a sun god and the patron of the city of Tenochtitlan."

So Mark Carson is way ahead -- in my book, he gets +100 points for pure class.

Of course Carson's theme looks best! :-)

I have no problem with the green bird since it clearly distinguish the icon from the others by color.

I don't like set #2 since the clock totally lacks the 3D look present in Fx / Tb. I don't like set #3 because the purple and red colors clash awfully bad in my eyes.

I also favor Carson's work. But a green Sunbird?!?! He has done something in orange tones as well:

http://axentra.net/www/sunbird/logo_contest_set1.html

Perhaps he can make it a bit more into yellow. That way it won't clash with Firefox and would be still in a more "reasonable" colour.

I think it's the most evocative of a 'Sunbird' being red, yellow and firy. For me the problem with Jeff's is that it is too evocotive of a phoenix! The other one is a bit too green.

I like the new proposed icon set, it's very important to me that it matches Firefox's set. However, the back and forward buttons are the old-winstripe ones, not the new ones we got in Firefox 0.9.1. I think the back and forward buttons was the main gripe people had with the new winstripe theme, there's just something about them that really bothers me. If the problem is how to use the new icon style for the old >> button (you can't just line up two of the new style arrows, it'd look retarded), I suggest they use the more commonly seen >| glyph instead. Hope that makes sense :)

Of the logos I like Carson's the most, the orange modified version is best though the green is nice too.

Personally, Mark's theme looks nicer to me.

However, as long as the program is as polished and functional as Fx/Tb are, and it can sync with my Palm, I don't care what it looks like or how it's colored :)

It looks the nicest. Plus the green complements the other Mozilla app icons nicely. Red for Firefox, Blue for Thunderbird, Green for Sunbird. Of course like someone suggested, Yellow could also be a nice colour.

After seeing these sets, I would actually prefer a cross between Carson's and Suslik's icons. I think the calendar is a better image than a clock for a *calendar* application, however I think Suslik's bird looks better. The head of Mark's bird tends to get lost at smaller sizes, while Suslik's looks good right down to 16x16.

Why not have a bit of collaboration between the icon artists? After all, Sunbird is a long way from 1.0 so there's no rush - let's get the best icon possible!