Brand identity is very important when defining a product.  The gPodder 'green man' and its use as an icon an important part of the brand identity for gPodder.  If a new icon is desired then the 'green man' should not just be thrown out.  It should be used somewhere in the new icon, but maybe not as the major feature of the icon.  Eventually in future version, the 'green man' can be phased out completely in favor of the icon that was transitioned to, desired.  An possible idea may be to use an icon similar to the new proposed icon, but rather then the 'antenna ?'  in the center, use the green man in the center of the circle, but smaller then he is now.  He can change color depending on the status of gPodder i.e. downloading podcasts.  Just as the new icon would.  This would introduce the circle concept of the new icon, and in the future you can replace the 'green man' with the 'antenna'.

While the new icon looks nice.  I do think it is a bit to generic looking.  It does not offer anything unique that tells me it is the gPodder application.  It looks more like telling me if my wireless network device is turned on or off.  Integrating the 'green man'  would add the unique gPodder brand identity to it.

Jared

Paul Rudkin wrote:
I like the new icon, but I also like the green man.   Though I think the
new icon could be good to signal a step in v1.0 land!

Paul

On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 14:41 +0200, Thomas Perl wrote:
  
Hello!

(CC'ing this one to Kalle)

As some of you probably know, Kalle Persson has been busy designing a
new gPodder icon for us. Here's the current icon version that he has
come up with:

http://kallepersson.se/upl/1220134543-gpodder-ideas.png

Please give some feedback what you think of the new icon. Kalle has
also mentioned that we can keep the "green man" that is currently a
kind of mascot for gPodder on the website and in the about dialog. What
do you think? Should we keep the green man in some places or not at all?


Thanks,
Thomas
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