I LOVE the lack of protocol icons

[Chase]

Is the feather some horribly cruel joke to make people think that the 
green dot isn't that bad?

When the protocol icons got dropped I thought it was weird and 
everything was strangely plain looking but I gave it a chance. After a 
while I realized one of the reasons I liked Pidgin was because I didn't 
want to care about the protocol involved. The one or two places I did 
care about the protocol I could just make a group. The green dot is 
simple and easy to understand.

I get that the feather fits with the bird theme but exactly how does it 
convey anything about presence at all? It's more a client type icon. In 
fact, I'd like to see the feather icon as an alternate shortcut icon, 
favicon, and general logo. That bug eyed bird freaks me out man....

-Chase

Ethan Blanton wrote:
> Eoin Coffey spake unto us the following wisdom:
>> On 6/11/07, Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im> wrote:
>>> This is certainly a valid opinion; I'm not fond of some of them,
>>> myself.  I generally think they are better than what we had before,
>>> however.  I think replacing the green ball with Hylke's new purple
>>> feather icon would go a long way toward improving the state of
>>> affairs.
>>>
>> Is there a link to that new proposed feather icon?
> 
> Fortunately, Etan had it handy:
> 
> http://pidgin.im/~deryni/available.png
> 
> Ethan
> 
> 
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