[ubuntu-art] Apport icons needed

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

2007/2/2, Troy James Sobotka <troy.sobotka at gmail.com>:
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> Do we have any metaphors that seem appropriate?
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> Kenneth Wimer wrote:
> > There is an open request for Apport icons.
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> > Apport needs icons for various purposes:
> >  - panel tray if a crash happened while the user wasn't logged in, or
> >  a system process crash
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> * Firecracker?
> * Car accident?
> * Broken Egg?



A broken gear wheel? Representing executables with gear wheels is pretty
standard... I guess...


>  - 'Report a bug...' menu entries (both in the Panel and in
> >  applications)
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> * Envelope in flight with bug on it?



* Envelope with broken gear wheel in it
* A broken gear wheel and a @ composed in a nice way

I guess I'm pretty much in favour of a gear-wheel-metaphor throughout the
icons...

Cheers,
Mikkel

>  - icon in the Apport UI dialogs
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> What would this be of?  Is it representational of the application itself?
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> >
> > Right now it uses a bomb with questionable copyright for the system
> > tray, bug-buddy's icon for the dialog frames, and the default Gnome
> > 'dialog alert' triangle for the menus. But it would be uber-cool to
> > get a designated nice and descriptive icon for everything. It should
> > convey the meanings 'bug, problem, crash', but needs to scale well
> > down to 16x16 (dialog headers and panel tray).
> >
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> If I am understanding you here, you want a singular icon to represent
> everything here?  If so, perhaps we should consider:
> * A simple image of a bug.
> * An alert based 'comic' blurb (Spiked 'explosive' metaphor)
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> Sincerely,
> TJS
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