Just saw someone's iPhone home screen in line at the post office. Every single icon was a white glyph on a color or gradient background. It's basically Windows Phone with rounded corners lol
@tbernard i mean wait until you see modern android with literal symbolic app icons in circles of the same color…
@alexm @tbernard …as an off-by-default clearly-labeled beta feature for those who want to customize a minimalist home screen. 🤷♂️
You’ve always been able to make bad decisions (setting a terrible wallpaper, installing a garbage custom launcher, etc.), but I actually appreciate Google offering some ways for people to customize the look w/o it being total garbage. If it is opt in, the user is going to be more likely to know where their own apps are, and the implementation is done by app authors.
@cassidyjames @tbernard ok, red/blue/yellow/green squiggles on white circles then (with that option off)
@cassidyjames @tbernard and like, whatever, but they had really good icons in 4.x and 5.x, then triangular play icons happened and it all went downhill :(
Meanwhile iOS icons haven’t changed much and are generally a lot more varied. The new macOS icons though…
@alexm @cassidyjames Yes and no, while the core apps are still mostly the same since iOS 7 my feeling is third party iOS icons have been getting worse. At least indie apps used to use actual physical objects, but nowadays even those all use a logo-like glyph on a flat background.
@alexm @cassidyjames Not sure when it happened, but at some point icons went from being their own thing to just "the company logo", even for apps where that doesn't make sense.
@tbernard @cassidyjames well... What else would they use? It's not like mastodon is an actual physical object (well, not in the sense that's useful here at least :3) And mastodon logo is an m as well, nothing super exciting.
@alexm @cassidyjames It's not about the metaphor, they could do less abstract versions of the elephant. Or, for example, the trumpet Tootle has, or some other semi-related object.
@tbernard @alexm @cassidyjames
In the opposite direction there are logos like the ones by Podman, Buildah etc. I find it impossible to make small monocrome versions of these.
