Sam, unfortunately your icons have much the same problem as the existing ones: they're indistinct against the background. Particularly with indicator-messages-available-new.svg, indicator-messages-invisible.svg, indicator-messages-invisible-new.svg, and indicator-messages-invisible- mixed.svg.
This is not a hard problem. It is not necessary to change the shape or the symbols. Just have enough contrast inside each icon that its outline is clear against blue, black, and silver. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-mono in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1056488 Title: Messaging menu title icons are indistinct Status in “ubuntu-mono” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: ubuntu-mono 0.0.45, Ubuntu Q 1. gthumb /usr/share/icons/Humanity/status/*/user-* /usr/share/icons /ubuntu-mono-*/status/*/indicator-messages-* What you see: A. Humanity's standalone IM status icons are a bit hard to see against a white background -- such as Empathy's status menu -- because the tops of the icons are white with no outline. B. The corresponding emblems are similarly hard to see against the light grey, black, or blue envelopes in Ubuntu Mono's messaging menu icons. <http://cloudfront.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08 /new-icons.jpg> The Offline and mixed-status icons are particularly bad. C. The "Invisible" icons and emblems have a pure black or white interior, which just looks weird. <http://cloudfront.omgubuntu.co.uk /wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-19-at-10.34.18.png> D. The "Available" and "Away" icons look bigger than the others. What you should see: A. All the icons, while beautiful, are robust enough to be thoroughly distinct against a white, light grey, or dark grey background. B. The icons remain simple enough that in emblem form they are thoroughly distinct against a bright blue, light grey, or dark grey background. If necessary, the envelope could have an emblem-shaped chunk bitten out of its bottom right corner, to make the emblem distinct. C. The "Invisible" icons and emblems have a transparent interior. D. All the chat status icons look the same size. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-mono/+bug/1056488/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
