On May 3, 12:01 pm, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/05/11 12:03, Tim Cuthbertson wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I love vim, but must admit to not being so fond of the fairly old > > looking icon. I recently created a new logo for my own use, and would > > be more than happy if you'd like to use it for an actual app icon or > > logo. > > > I'm happy to release it under pretty much whatever licence is > > required, if people want to modify / improve it. > > > The icon can be found here: > >http://gfxmonk.net/2011/04/25/new-gvim-icon.html > > > svg:http://gfxmonk.net/images/vim-logo/vim-logo.svg > > png:http://gfxmonk.net/images/vim-logo/vim-logo-128.png > > > Cheers, > > - Tim. > > What's wrong with that old icon?
Mostly subjective reasons, but the lack of antialiasing and the limited colour use I think are concrete aspects that make the logo look particularly outdated. And the subjective opinions are at least shared by most who have participated in this thread (so far). > Doesn't anyone use low resolutions > and/or 256-colour terminals anymore (even in the deepest of the jungles > where Vim might be in use on 4th-hand computers even if Vista isn't > supported by them)? Perhaps there is need for a fallback icon with safe colours for the minority of users who run their graphical environment in 256-colour, but I doubt it should be the default. > I have a 48x48 Vim icon on my desktop and it doesn't look out of place > next to SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, Adobe Reader and YaST. I'm running fedora 15 w/ gnome-shell, which features pretty large icons (~96px, I think). Vim looks extremely out of place. In my applications list, there is not a single other application that lacks antialiasing, nor one that sticks to any palette of "safe" colours. So yes, I'm certainly viewing most of my icons larger than most folk right now, but the trend is nonetheless for bigger icons. > BTW, the HTML textbooks I have here still mention "safe" GUI colours, > which are colours where the red, green and blue components are each a > multiple of 0x33 (in #rrggbb notation) or of 3 (in "abbreviated" > 3-nybble #rgb notation). This means there are 6^3 = 216 "safe" colours. Is your point that there are plenty of safe colours to use, or simply that conservative icons should stick to safe colours only? I haven't read a HTML book for a long time, but I also don't know any web developer who still actually sticks to safe colours. Regards, - Tim. -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
