[Aquamacs-devel] Aquamacs 2.0 icon - plans

[David Reitter]

You will have seen my previous message summarizing the results of the  
icon survey by now.

The people have spoken: they want to keep the current gnu head icon.

Of course we have to take this result with a grain of salt: the people  
I asked are fans of the program, they have been using it for a long  
time and associate this icon with the application.   On the other  
hand, their reasoning makes sense: Emacs and Aquamacs are platforms  
for doing more than working with the kinds of text you'd expect to see  
on a notepad.  And obviously there is some brand recognition at least  
among our current users.  That's worth something.

Re-branding is always tricky, and I'd only like to do it if the new  
logo is really worth it.  Despite all the work that Jessie (who  
contributed #2-#5) and I have done, it seems that we haven't found  
this new logo yet.

So, what do we do?  One option is to revise the current logo, perhaps  
by making it a little more "Aqua" and a little more glowing.

On the other hand, I know of only one popular app (Adium) that gets  
away with such a non-metaphoric figure, and the icons on OS X are  
generally not like ours.  Also, now (2.0) would be a good time to re- 
brand, IMHO.

Your opinions?  Alternative suggestions?

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