Bug 9931 – [Drosera] Needs a cool icon

• Component: New Bugs
• Status: CLOSED FIXED

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Drosera needs a cool icon.  The plain application icon just doesn't do anything for me.

I suppose people could pitch ideas for icons in this bug as well.  My initial thought was a drosera plant with icons of various WebKit-based applications "caught" like bugs in it, but that probably wouldn't scale down very well.  Maybe just the plant by itself would be cool enough, or a close-up of one "leaf" of the plant with the sticky tendrils visible.

[Joost de Valk (AlthA)]

Perhaps Niels can be of assistance here? :)

[Timothy Hatcher]

I have played with some ideas for an icon. But I have lost my skills in illustration. 

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Example images (accidentally posted to Bug 9932):

Attachment 9469 [details]
Attachment 9470 [details]

[Niels Leenheer (HTML5test)]

Created attachment 9548 [details]
Icon proposal

I didn't have much time, but I managed to create the attached icon. If you guys are interested I will attach the original psd, which can be used to create multiple sizes with transparency.

[Niels Leenheer (HTML5test)]

Created attachment 9549 [details]
Proposal in various sizes

[Niels Leenheer (HTML5test)]

Created attachment 9551 [details]
Some more pixelpushing for 32x32 and 64x64

[Timothy Hatcher]

I like the illustration style of this! However, it immediately says venus fly-trap to me.

Digging around google images I found another drosera picute that shows the unique look of a drosera plant.

http://myco-cheype.chez-alice.fr/images/Fleurs/drosera_intermedia2.jpg

They really don't have 2 sides like a venus fly-trap, but they do curl or contract the sticky tentacles around prey.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> They really don't have 2 sides like a venus fly-trap, but they do curl or
> contract the sticky tentacles around prey.

The interesting thing is what the "prey" should be (if it's part of the icon).  Should it be a real insect (like a fly), or should it be something abstract like a WebKit icon?  :)  The tentacles could represent the "attached" relationship that Drosera has with its "prey"....  Okay, I'll stop the analogy there.

[Diego Miguel Virasoro]

> The interesting thing is what the "prey" should be (if it's part of the icon). 
> Should it be a real insect (like a fly), or should it be something abstract
> like a WebKit icon?  :)  The tentacles could represent the "attached"
Just a comment from a user... take it as you wish.

But shouldn't the "pray" rappresent the bugs in the code? In the end Drosera kills the bug, not the program itself. :) I wouldn't put the webkit icon, but that's just an opinion.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #9)
> But shouldn't the "pray" rappresent the bugs in the code? In the end Drosera
> kills the bug, not the program itself. :) I wouldn't put the webkit icon, but
> that's just an opinion.

Good point.  I guess it wasn't a very good analogy after all.  :)

[Niels Leenheer (HTML5test)]

Created attachment 9565 [details]
Second proposal

Added a second proposal. This time a real drosera. The last was indeed a combination of a flytrap and a drosera. Regarding the pray: I think this will become to much detail.

[Timothy Hatcher]

This looks great!

[Niels Leenheer (HTML5test)]

Created attachment 9738 [details]
OS X icon file of second proposal

Added icon file which can be dropped in the Drosera package.

[Timothy Hatcher]

Comment on attachment 9738 [details]
OS X icon file of second proposal

This is great, I am going to land this. We might consider adding a bug to the icon at some point. Can we get a large version of this 512x512 or larger?

[Timothy Hatcher]

Landed in r15753.

[Niels Leenheer (HTML5test)]

I created the icon at ~1200x1200, so I can create 512x512 without any problem. I'll attach it to this bug. I'll also add the original Photoshop file to this bug.

[Niels Leenheer (HTML5test)]

Created attachment 13051 [details]
PNG of 512 x 512 pixel version

[Niels Leenheer (HTML5test)]

The original Photoshop document at 1024 x 1024 pixels:
http://rakaz.nl/artwork/drosera/drosera1024.zip

[Timothy Hatcher]

Thanks Niels!

[Timothy Hatcher]

Closing since Drosera has been replaced by the new Web Inspector debugger. Moving to the New Bugs component so the Drosera component can be closed and removed.