Re: [JDEV] artwork/UI

[Temas <temas@box5.net>]

DO NOT USE AIM LOGOS.  They will get their undergarments in a not =)  I
have experienced this personally and talked to others who have
experienced it.  That's just my word to the wise.  Drawing our own icons
and logos is by far the best option.  Unfortunately they really should
have very little simblance to the original icons or else people start
going crazy.  It's a sad sad world we live in that we can't support
these other products in such a way, but it's the truth.  As for a link
to button jabber has always made me think of the twizzlers mouth. 
That's my $0.02 on a jabber logo.

--Thomas Muldowney

Sean McCullough wrote:
> 
> How would you feel about using a standard set of icons
> for things like users, groups, IMs across all graphical clients?  I'm
> not suggesting they be required, but it
> would a) make implementing a new client easier and b)
> give Jabber a stronger identity for the non-programmer users.  I know
> it's a client UI implementation issue and therefore out of the scope of
> the Jabber specs but
> like I said, it would just be a set of icons that implementors are free
> to use if they so desire.
> 
> I don't know if AIM/YAHOO/ICQ would get their undergarments in a knot
> about Jabber clients ripping
> icons from their clients, but I personally don't think
> those UIs are worth ripping off.  The Jabber team could come up with
> better ones.
> 
> Another related issue is a logo.  Gnome = foot, Linux = penguin, BSD =
> devil, Apache = feather - It's not just an issue for commercial
> products to address.  What would a "Jabber Now" link button look like?
> ICQ's has that flower on it.  I think the other buddy lists have them
> too.
> 
> Sorry if the marketing questions make you ill.  Now I need to go write
> some code, repent for my sins.
> 
> -Sean McCullough
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