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Firebug 1.4 Icons

As we close in on Firebug 1.4 to coincide with the release of Firefox 3.5, we have a chance to redo some of the icons that are in place.

IRC user Templarian mocked up this design using the Silk icon set from FamFamFam. I think it looks pretty sweet.

He’s also started a discussion on the Firebug Google Discussion group, so please leave comments there, in the Flickr photo or right here if you don’t feel like traveling.

And while we’re on the topic, you should check out the latest Firebug 1.4(a30) in the latest nightly of Firefox 3.5. It’s coming together.

This is way prettier than our existing design. I could even live with the alternative inspect button design, for the sake of consistency, if nothing else.

I’d still prefer to see up and down arrows for search prev and search next, rather than left or right arrows. For the Windows style buttons in this screenshot there’s no ambiguity. The style we’re currently using for OS X uses an up arrow and down arrow for detach-window and minimize-window respectively, so using up and down arrows for search could cause some confusion.

I’m wondering if it would be reasonable to use essentially the Windows style icons for detach-window and minimize window on OS X as well — we could just Mac-ify them by using the round button style, but use the same images (bar/arrow+rectangle) inside them. Then there’d be no conflict with the arrows used for search.

@Curtis,

Yea, that actually makes sense. The search are now up and down.

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/1769/designxif.png
(also guys remember “mockups” the real versions will be refined)

@Templarian:

Wait, you mean there’s supposed to be a refinement step?!

yeah, I don’t even know what that means

hmm. lol.

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/7803/designl.png

meh

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/2167/designv.png

I like this one the most. And I think I took everyone advice so far.

I like these last changes a lot. Are we ready to start cutting it into icons yet?

If you want, later on we will try and incorporate what johnjbarton, and Jan O. wanted (but theses changes won’t effect their future plans)

I’ll try and cut them up Saturday.

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