Comment 2 for bug 1056488

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Sam Hewitt (snwh) wrote : Re: Messaging menu title icons are indistinct

First and foremost I'll apologize if these )proposed) patches are incorrect I'm not entire familiar with creating them.

What I've done is created patches using icons I created screenshots here:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7027392/icons-screenshot-ambiance.png
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7027392/icons-screenshot-radiance.png
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7027392/messaging-menu-ambiance.png
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7027392/messaging-menu-radiance.png

Just in case, an archive of the icons here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7027392/alternate-messaging-menu-icons.tar.gz

For Humanity/status/*/user-* icons:
1. I thought a uniform shape and size would be most elegant, and the simplest shape: a circle
2. Applied the same colour gradient as the old icons, but no drop shadow.
3. To convey status with out purely being colour different, I emblazoned the circles with symbols to convey status.

For the ubuntu-mono-*/status/*/indicator-messages-* I simply used 16px icon of the Humanity icons as an overlay, but making it larger than the pre-existing.