Long time no post… Has been quite busy for me lately. Loving my new job and I’m currently arranging moving to London, which proves to be harder than I thought. Bureaucracy sucks…

You may also have noticed that my icon maintenance on Pidgin have been lacking, but I hope to catch up on it soon. Meanwhile Jakub Steiner did some retouches on the Pidgin application icon, which will make its way into version 2.6. I really love the craziness of the creature. You thought the Pidgin logo was scary? Think again!

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I think the screenshot and mockup explain themselves. (Not actually using Clutter )

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Tricky ballots. I hope they’ll get it right this time. Is it really that hard?

This latest mockup to try to make the notification area look better got a bit out of hand, but the idea is to have some visible container widget to hold all the notification area icons. This way your panel looks a lot cleaner and it’s easier to distinguish them from applets or launchers. They are safely in their box, and you won’t have to be afraid they’ll attack you anytime soon. I also thought it would be a nice idea to have launchers placed on some kind of buttons to increase consistency.

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