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Bug 710764 - Windows Live/Microsoft Account lacks icon
Windows Live/Microsoft Account lacks icon
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-online-accounts
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.10.x
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: GNOME Online Accounts maintainer(s)
GNOME Online Accounts maintainer(s)
: 707684 729310 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-10-23 22:25 UTC by Andreas Nilsson
Modified: 2015-03-26 19:44 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
account-microsoft (3.66 KB, application/gzip)
2013-10-23 22:40 UTC, Andreas Nilsson
  Details
live: "Microsoft Account" is the common parlance nowadays (1.13 KB, patch)
2015-03-26 17:28 UTC, Debarshi Ray
committed Details | Review
icons: Shiny new Microsoft Account icons (10.11 KB, patch)
2015-03-26 17:50 UTC, Debarshi Ray
committed Details | Review

Description Andreas Nilsson 2013-10-23 22:25:11 UTC
While bug #707684 is about the string, Jasper mentioned the other day that the service also lacks an icon, making the whole thing look slightly broken in GNOME Initial Setup.

I'm going to provide an icon here.
Comment 1 Andreas Nilsson 2013-10-23 22:40:59 UTC
Created attachment 257981 [details]
account-microsoft
Comment 2 Debarshi Ray 2013-10-27 16:35:10 UTC
For the sake of leaving a paper trail, I removed the butterfly icon for Windows Live some time ago after talking to Jakub because we concluded that there is no single visual identity for this:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-online-accounts/commit/?id=829e2a09e7d4d9e6961ddf393f2042ad8eee8ea6

If the four squares icon is now consistently used to represent Windows Live / Microsoft Account, then I am happy to use it.
Comment 3 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2013-10-27 16:41:47 UTC
I think some icon is better than nothing. Nothing just looks broken. I agree that Microsoft was never good at branding anything, and that it's hard to pick a singular icon, but the MSN butterfly, Microsoft logo, or Windows logo are all acceptable choices.
Comment 4 Jakub Steiner 2013-10-30 14:58:08 UTC
The extra whitespace does indeed feel unbalanced. But I think doing a watermark like symbol would be better.

https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/system-settings/online-accounts/watermark.png
Comment 5 Jakub Steiner 2014-05-09 14:03:06 UTC
*** Bug 729310 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Debarshi Ray 2015-03-26 17:04:57 UTC
*** Bug 707684 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Debarshi Ray 2015-03-26 17:18:52 UTC
It has been more than a year now. Let's decide one way or another. :)

Shall we rename "Windows Live" to "Microsoft Account"? It might look a bit strange to have both "Microsoft Account" and "Microsoft Exchange" in the UI, but ... *shrug*

Jakub, are you happy with these icons? The old butterfly logo does seem to have fallen out of favour, so I am happy to go with the four squares logo.
Comment 8 Allan Day 2015-03-26 17:23:04 UTC
(In reply to Debarshi Ray from comment #7)
> It has been more than a year now. Let's decide one way or another. :)
> 
> Shall we rename "Windows Live" to "Microsoft Account"? It might look a bit
> strange to have both "Microsoft Account" and "Microsoft Exchange" in the UI,
> but ... *shrug*

"Microsoft Account" seems to be the common parlance nowadays [1], so sure.

> Jakub, are you happy with these icons? The old butterfly logo does seem to
> have fallen out of favour, so I am happy to go with the four squares logo.

I'm not intimately familiar with Microsoft branding, but the four squares (as used in [1]) seem to be the way they're going, so sure.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-GB/account/default.aspx
Comment 9 Debarshi Ray 2015-03-26 17:28:58 UTC
Created attachment 300374 [details] [review]
live: "Microsoft Account" is the common parlance nowadays
Comment 10 Debarshi Ray 2015-03-26 17:50:14 UTC
Created attachment 300376 [details] [review]
icons: Shiny new Microsoft Account icons
Comment 11 Moo 2015-03-26 19:44:51 UTC
Also rename goa-account-msn.png to goa-account-microsoft.png