[Merge] lp:~alanbell/webbrowser-app/icon-1505970 into lp:webbrowser-app

[Piotr Mitana]

To be honest I don't like this icon proposal at all - from at least a few reasons.
1. As far as I know, all Ubuntu convergent apps have square icons without using transparency. They may not look well on Unity 7, but they are designed for the new Unity 8 and for being masked into the Ubuntu's squircle shape. I think that the browser icon neither can no should break out from the scheme.
2. I think I would have to spend a few moments looking on it before I would realize what is that for. It's definitely more Ubuntu then Browser. What's more - imagine all the system/core apps being a little colored Ubuntu logo. It will look as bad as possible.
3. The current paper-like Suru iconography of Ubuntu Touch is cool in my opinion. Let's not try to change it. I agree that browser icon should not mimic the one of Safari in any way, but it shoud keep the style of all the other Ubuntu icons. I would suggest either using the earth ball theme on the navy background (cosmic space) with a subtle arrow mouse cursor in the middle combined with the characteristic Suru paper folds. Or an attempt to come up with something entirely new, as Chrome did years ago when it appeared.

On the mailing list someone suggested the pictographic icons known from the Ubuntu webpage. The Ubuntu's UI is definitely not a place for them - their style with thick, round-ended lines and all-rounded shape seems to be just an opposite of all the Suru design language.

To sum up: let's change the Safari-like icon ASAP, but let's continue with Suru style as well.
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