Desktop icon for the dev-release

[megane]

Yes, I'd lose the text and the hammer as well; the gears are enough to differentiate it from the standard icon. As it is it's darn busy.

Edit: feeling uncreative. Made a thing. Simplistic, but the icon-metaphor-producing part of my brain is dead atm.

[mesilliac]

I thought the gear-chunk-shield was a nice idea.

But then I couldn't make it look good

I gave up at this point.

Gear from http://openclipart.org/media/files/valessiobrito/2684

[hagabaka]

This looks very cool!

Too bad I normally run wesnoth by just typing the command, and never see the icon

[irrevenant]

It does look very cool. It makes me immediately think "KDE", though that may well just be me.

One thing we should be careful to emphasise (or not de-emphasise at least) IMO is that Dev doesn't mean "broken".

[vicza]

It makes me immediately think "KDE"

It makes me immediately think "KDE4". While I like KDE (especially some earlier versions, like KDE 3.3; and with icons from KDE2 set), the KDE4 with its "eye-candy futuristic look" is just HORRIBLE. I can only hope in BfW will be nothing of KDE4 or GNOME interfaces.

Anyway, the medieval shield and more-than-modern gear... I don't think it's a good idea. Maybe, better would be some dwarvish hammer, as already was proposed here...

One thing we should be careful to emphasise (or not de-emphasise at least) IMO is that Dev doesn't mean "broken".

It's not "broken", it's "not yet made".

[Kestenvarn]

Maybe, better would be some dwarvish hammer, as already was proposed here...

Dwarven hammer over a (brass-colored) clockwork gear? There was a Wesnoth faction using that sort of theme if I remember right....

[thespaceinvader]

I don't go for the gear either - it doesn't fit with the time period wesnoth is set in.

Maybe the shield could be partly bare wood, like it's not finished yet.

[vicza]

Dwarven hammer over a (brass-colored) clockwork gear?

What about the hammers instead of swords?

[irrevenant]

One thing we should be careful to emphasise (or not de-emphasise at least) IMO is that Dev doesn't mean "broken".

It's not "broken", it's "not yet made".

But it is made, that's my point. It's an ongoing refinement of an already complete work, not something that's only partly functional.

[mesilliac]

The idea behind the gear thing isn't that it's broken, or incomplete. It's just that it's not completely polished off and you might be able to see some rough edges where the developers are still working on it occasionally.

And it was a modern gear, because well... the underlying development process is pretty modern . It is a computer simulation of a fantasy world, after all.

Kinda moot unless someone can make it better anyway. I'm not even sure what I don't like about it, hence giving up.

Incidentally I've never even used KDE /me is a GNOME fanboy

I think megane's icons are fine for the server btw.

here are a couple 20-second attempts with hammers... anything else would need a new hammer.

[Sapient]

ugh, no that hammer one looks terrible.

have you ever looked inside a watch? The gears are really tiny. I think some small bronze ones would look nice. the big steel one is not so hot.

[mesilliac]

Heh, yeah I was concerned that the gear might be too hard to see when it's scaled down

[Sapient]

Heh, yeah I was concerned that the gear might be too hard to see when it's scaled down

bah... I can see that I should have just drawn it. :p

anyways you can get stuff very small and still tell what it is if you use the right technique. for example, Wesnoth sprite art.

[Neoskel]

Another idea to throw out there, how about the wesnoth icon, but a part of the shield is just blank/white with a blue outline like a drawing or blueprint?

[thespaceinvader]

MM, I was thinking of a green wire frame myself. I wasn't quite sure about the idea, so i didn't posdt it.