Comment 43 for bug 643146

Sorry you feel this way Jamie, I really do appreciate all the effort that went into this and I can understand your frustration at "good looks won out over other sensibilities." , however I definitely feel the points that you made were valid and taken into account when choosing the icon.

For example, the film cell in ttk1opc's is a hybrid of a film-cell and a user's desktop (note the desktop icons). This takes into account your point of "[film clappers, ] it's a misrepresentation". As it shows that it is the desktop that we are recording.

Your criticism of the purpose of the magic wand is fair, however it is the one thing in the icon which is not intended to tell the user what is does, but what the program is. 'Kazam' and 'screencaster' all hint at magic or magicians and so I believe this is the reason for choosing.

I also feel having the icons and then the magic wand, the distinctive pink and then the film cell all come together to make the icon "unique enough so that when enlarged it's recognisable but simple enough to not become distorted when it's on a 20 pixel Panel".

Alas, I would have liked to have a record button in there so were were absolutely definite in what we wanted the user to perceive it as, but your can only put on so much :)

So finally I guess I want to say don't be disheartened by this, I have to admit I may have been a bit too eager to get the logo done so that I could put out a new release, however I am very happy with what I have chosen and want to thank everyone again for their help.