Re: pgAdmin Icon - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Scott Bailey
Subject Re: pgAdmin Icon
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Msg-id 4B058D2C.30007@comcast.net
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In response to Re: pgAdmin Icon  (Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>)
Responses Re: pgAdmin Icon  (Rob Napier <rob@doitonce.net.au>)
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Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> Le jeudi 19 novembre 2009 à 01:07:26, Scott Bailey a écrit :
>> While we are on the topic of logos, I want to point out how awful the
>> pgAdmin icon looks. It looks like it was blown up from an 8x8 pixel MS
>> Paint drawing.
>>
>> On Ubuntu the icon looks absolutely out of place in a panel full of high
>> color, 3D looking logos. On Windows, it doesn't stand out quite as much
>> (at least on XP, no idea about Vista or 7). But I guarantee it will be
>> the ugliest looking icon on your taskbar. For someone installing
>> Postgres on their system, this is THE graphical representation of
>> Postgres. And I think the message it is sending about us is not very
>> good... especially when we high quality icons available on pgFoundry.
>>
>
> You're welcome to send us a better icon. I mean a better icon that will be
> displayed great on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
>
> Honestly I didn't remember about this because I don't use an icon to launch
> this tool :) (well, in fact, I did know about it because there is already a
> ticket in the bugtracker of Debian or Ubuntu... but I'm definitely not a
> designer)

Attached is my stab at it. If we don't like that, there are tons of
icons at http://pgfoundry.org/docman/?group_id=1000089

And the one of the front page of pgFoundry is nice too. It would need
shrunk a bit.
http://pgfoundry.org/images/elephantSmall.png


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