<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/23/2013 05:58 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:50FFC249.6050405@canonical.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> Hi folks We have a usability problem in Software Updater (formerly known as Update Manager). The problem is that when the updates dialog appears by itself, there's no visual clue that this is an official Ubuntu thing. In Ubuntu 12.10 and earlier, the icon is just a brown box with an orange arrow. And in Raring right now, it's an "A" with a progress bar and arrows around it - -- again, nothing obviously to do with Ubuntu, and a bit of a non sequitur too. So, it would help if we had a new icon, one which obviously communicates that these are official updates for Ubuntu. - -- mpt </pre> </blockquote> Hi Matthew, While the idea of an airdrop/parachute is nice, as someone else also pointed out, people are more used to the arrows and it is easier to use that "known metaphor" for updates to make it easier for people to recognise "updates". Since updates are something that need to be a part of Software centre, it is better to have a Software Updater icon that is a derivative of the original Software centre icon rather than making it look like a completely different/unrelated app. Here is my take on the Software Updater. I have only done the 48px and 128px icons. And this metaphor is scalable for all sizes, right down to 16px. The black color for the bag is something I used to make the bag distinguishably different from the SC icon while maintaining the contrast for the silver arrows and the orange for "Ubuntu". Cheers, Vish <img alt="software-updater48" title="software-updater48" src="cid:part1.00090104.00030102@ubuntu.com" height="48" width="48"><img alt="software-updater128" title="software-updater128" src="cid:part2.06090903.04070004@ubuntu.com" height="128" width="128"> </body> </html>