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Something that has always bugged me about VLC... The Traffic Cone icon. Whereas it's was a brilliant piece of imagery to separate VLC from other 3rd party playe

by Jaruzel 10y ago

Something that has always bugged me about VLC... The Traffic Cone icon. Whereas it's was a brilliant piece of imagery to separate VLC from other 3rd party players, nowadays that market place is way less competitive, so maybe now is the time to switch up the icon to something more formal? I've started seeing VLC included on work-orientated desktop builds and the Cone icon sticks out like a sore thumb, and most lay-users have no idea what VLC is so assume it's a system utility (based on the icon). Maybe a combo of a Video Player icon, with a smaller traffic cone on the side... ?

jbk 10y ago
Submit a new icon. But so far, it's very distinctive, so it will stay like that, until a better icon is submitted.
- Jaruzel 10y ago
  Brilliant assumption that I have the skills. Ok, I'll have a go... http://imgur.com/tvXmCvr http://imgur.com/tvXmCvr What do you think ? :)
  - jbk 10y ago
    I'll pass on that one then ;)
  - pvinis 10y ago
    woa. i know its a joke drawing, but the cone you made looks like a wizards hat! maybe the next icon should be an awesome orange striped wizard hat. for the end users, vlc plays all videos, magically ;)
yvoschaap 10y ago
I'd created this one a while back: http://images.videolan.org/images/goodies/cone-icon-transparent.png http://images.videolan.org/images/goodies/cone-icon-transpar...