We totally agree about the rest … !
The only different is that I would have like it best on top of the dock . To make it action-less was my last despair idea when I thought we are going to give it up completely.
Thanks for the icon!
We could use this in your PR with some generic icon name and then symlink it to the icon we’d decided on in the future if others agree on this
Try centering the whole CoF object, not just the circle itself. Sometimes this looks off, other times it looks better. Think this may be an instance when it might look better.
Some more padding may do good.
Suru guidelines say there should be a shadow gradient along the fold line, so that it does look like an actual fold.
Other than that, I like this! Keep up the good work!
@taciturasa you’re right, and IMO it’s a pain centring the CoF because sometimes one method looks best, sometimes the other, and sometimes both look a bit odd and you have to try somewhere in the middle! I’ve tried some more padding and think the composition actually looks good now but I await further feedback.
In terms of the fold gradient, you’re right - not sure how I “flattened” it but I seem to have done (I will study the source icon, which was the Software Centre, and see how the gradient works on the original).
Well, we could put the Ubuntu logo to the Ubuntu updates manager app and put that below “Activities”. The current grey “A” icon is currently the same as the Software Center icon which I find highly confusing anyway. (“was the Software Center the grey “A” or the orange “A”?”).
I think that the update app is an Ubuntu/Canonical app anyway, thus we would probably be allowed to theme it as “Ubuntu”.
@taciturasa, hmm, I’ve studied the source icon and can’t see a fold shadow… it’s an old icon, so possibly the artist did it before the guidelines had settled into their final form?
My inspection did highlight two things that are visible in the largest icon size:
The absolute white of the Circle of Friends is a bit “stark” compared to the Software icon (which uses a slightly peachy “off-white” for the letter A glyph);
The Circle of Friends lacks the subtle drop shadow, which is visible when you view the Software icon at the largest size.
I’ve now incorporated these tweaks into the largest version of my icon. I think I might struggle to do a more pixel-perfect forgery of the source style but I welcome feedback if I’ve missed anything.
EDIT: due to quality reduction of the embedded image, neither icon looks quite as nice as the one on my own PC sadly, but hopefully you can at least see that they match!
@mozit That would have been a good solution but I ended up just stealing the colour from the “A” on Software. Sadly the subtle colour difference is a bit lost when I upload to the forum… I think maybe it reduces the colour levels slightly? When I’m doing the PR I presume I will be uploading the full quality versions somewhere suitable and then you can see them exactly
I’ll try to upload to Imgur and see if there’s less reduction in colour. Bear in mind both the drop shadow and the peachy colour are very subtle (no stronger than in the Software icon) but I’m not surprised you can’t detect them in the embedded image!
Hmm, it was the same in Imgur, but it seems better in Firefox, maybe it’s something Chrome is doing when it renders the png.
EDIT: Yep, if you view in Firefox you can screenshot and use (say) the eye dropper tool in GIMF to show that the CoF is a very light peach colour, and an exact match to the left hand “/” of the “A” on the Software icon
Right, sorry for all the embedded images I’ve been posting (!), but I want to get this exactly right before I submit it to @snwh… these are the graphics that I hope to put in a PR, for the new “Ubuntu” icon (specific app/symlink to be confirmed later).
I’ve put them side-by-side with the corresponding Software Centre ones to show the consistency in colour, pixellation, highlight etc… The colours aren’t quite identical to the source files when I upload/embed, but it’s very very close, and the two graphics are equally affected, so you can still see “sameness”. My hope is for the proposed new icon to fit in 100% with the existing Suru family, down to the pixel level.
Please request further changes if you want to see any (e.g., do we still want to try using a different centre for the graphic?).
Something that occurred to me today… I instinctively went for orange because a) it’s a brand colour and b) it was planned for Unity 8. But we already have a prominent orange icon (which I copied!), so would people prefer aubergine?