Thanks for the proposed icons.  Two people on the elinks-dev list
have commented on them so far.  The elinks5_* icons were
preferred and elinks7_* came second.

In my view though, the lower-case "e" of elinks5_* is too similar
to the Internet Explorer logo.  Besides, it might make the
incorrect "eLinks" spelling more common.  I don't think it is
necessary to have any sort of "E" or chain in the icon.

Here are comments from someone I asked in RL, translated by me:

"elinks1: This one I like best.  The blue sphere could depict the
global dimension of elinks.  The spherical symbol would be easy
to recognize as a browser, because for example Firefox and Safari
also have roundish symbols.  However, the frame around the symbol
distinguishes it from Firefox and especially from Safari, of
which is it more reminiscent.

elinks5: My attention is caught in the e letter, in which I see
the side profile of a gray face.  The shape is bawling angrily,
with the mouth wide open and the eyes flaming.  The shape can
also look stupid, because in the place of the blue rectangular
eye, there is a hole straight to the blue background, that is,
the shape would appear to have a hollow, empty head.  Quite an
unpleasant icon, irritating even.

elinks7: A gray icon, in which there is a piece of chain.  There
it is, but it doesn't seem to reach anywhere further - sure
doesn't remind of any global dimension.  The gray icon is too
colorless.  At least in my own computer, it wouldn't be easy to
distinguish from the grey background of the dock."

Personally, I hoped to see non-rectangular icons, with
transparent backgrounds.  Although elinks7 has a rectangular
frame, it had one person liking it and nobody objecting to it, so
I could add that one to the source tree if we can agree on the
licensing.  Unless you first want to try something else, that is.

Most of ELinks is licensed under GNU GPL v2, but I think that is
too restrictive for icons because they often appear in screen
shots and people distributing those should not be required to
provide transparent or vector versions of the icons.

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