More on icons

Following up my post on Adobe’s icon mess, here’s a look at the process of choosing new icons for Debian’s IceWeasel, IceApe, and IceDove programs.

For those of you not familiar with the suite of programs (as I wasn’t) here’s a blurb from Wikipedia:

IceWeasel is the name of two currently independent Mozilla Firefox rebranding projects. One is part of the Gnuzilla project, a GNU project to provide versions of Mozilla programs which are made of entirely free software. The other is a rebranded build prepared by Debian in order to satisfy a demand from Mozilla that they either drop the Firefox name or comply with other terms that Debian policies find unacceptable.

IceDove is a rebadged ThunderBird, and IceApe a rebadged SeaMonkey. My favorites are currently from Unicko…check these out.

The ones for IceWeasel aren’t as nice, but at least some people are having fun with the process.

Makes you wonder what Adobe threw out in the process of rebranding of their suite of programs.

seth, Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:54:00 GMT
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  1. MH 1 day later:

    What process? Design by Slashdot? It’s too bad—the designer has some talent, but the best visuals in the world could not redeem “IceWeasel.”

    “Are we supporting IceWeasel in this release?” “Oh, don’t use IE, it’s awful. Use IceWeasel instead…” Uh, yeah.

    Naming is part of branding, too. Are these products really supposed to be taken seriously? Were the names required to be such thin translations of the original, or did they do it for spite?

  2. Seth 1 day later:

    “Design by Slashdot”...I like that one :)

    I’m not making a comment either way on the branding or naming aspect of the product line.

    The point of the post was to show my disgust that an open-source community of all organizations can outshine a design stronghold like Adobe with their icon choices.

  3. MH 1 day later:

    Have any of those Adobe apps actually shipped with the periodic table icons? There may still be time for them to save face…

  4. Seth 1 day later:

    I believe the betas have shipped with the periodic table elements. And according to some blog entries I’ve read they’re sticking with it for the final release.

    Check the other blog entry where it links to a project manager’s blog @ Adobe.

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