Making love to the new feed icon

By Trond. Thursday, 16. February 2006, 16:32:39

Yes, we're adopting it too, and it will be in the next weekly build. Thanks to www.feedicons.com for making it so easy! Oh, and in case you haven't seen it before (what are the odds.. ), I've attached a large version to this post which you can make love to.

First Weekly BuildsOpera 8.52

Comments

Nice, i love this icon. That blue square was getting boring

By Ramunas, # 16. February 2006, 16:40:03

Love it

Never really liked that blue one Opera uses...
And the next weekly will be out tomorrow?

By PaiTrakt, # 16. February 2006, 16:45:09

We aim for friday releases, yes.

By Trond, # 16. February 2006, 16:46:46

thats good, commonality among all browsers will perhaps help any newbie to RSS be more comfortable w/ trying it.

though ive loved the blue RSS icon that shows up in the address bar if that page has it, used to have to hunt in the page for the little link @ the bottom of the page.

By freonchill, # 16. February 2006, 16:53:13

Hmm.. more people will tell that Opera becomes more and more Fx-ish

though they do not understand who is now the idea generator

But anyway,

Waiting for tomorrow build!

By Dennis_Hawks, # 16. February 2006, 16:53:27

No. This is just ugly. Opera is not Firefox. Stop using Firefox's ugly colors. Opera can use another color, like red. That is Opera's color. People will still recognise the button, but it does not have to be exactly like Firefox. I hate the way you let your competition dictate your design. It feels like a lack of imagination, and a lack of identity.

By toblerone, # 16. February 2006, 16:59:59

Will there be a UNIX build tomorrow?

By Ramunas, # 16. February 2006, 17:00:20

It's good to see that icon becoming more and more popular. People are starting to recognize it instantly - even people who think the icon for the internet is a blue "e"

I suppose I could dig it up for myself, but what icon will IE7 use?

By velmu, # 16. February 2006, 17:02:07

IE7 will use the same icon.

By mitchman2, # 16. February 2006, 17:07:10

@velmu
Orange like this one. It already uses it.
toblerone

Opera can use another color, like red.

By Dennis_Hawks, # 16. February 2006, 17:07:59

I'm glad to see some unification among the various browser venders.

By danigoldman, # 16. February 2006, 17:17:34

Very nice (:

P.S. When users should wait proper widget restoring on Opera launch and support for .wdgt extension in system?

By Aux, # 16. February 2006, 17:18:56

I don't really care. The RSS Icons isn't a beauty either.

Though I must admit I was very confused when the icon first appeared in FF.

I don't think the icon really makes sense, but it's recognisable, and that's the desired effect. Don't make Opera drop this idea. It's (useful) progress in integration, imho.

By _Grey_, # 16. February 2006, 17:26:38

It sucks, not only because it's stolen or let's say copy, shaked&pasted from http://www.dvbviewer.com but also because Opera should set standards, not Firefox.

Icfu

By Icfu, # 16. February 2006, 17:44:05

I already see this in TP2. I see it right now for this page, as a matter of fact...

By MrFrodo, # 16. February 2006, 17:49:25

You are using a skin then.

Icfu

By Icfu, # 16. February 2006, 18:02:55

You don't have to wait new preview to get it. Just edit skin.ini
So if you don't like it, replace another graphics and set RSS under [Boxes]. Now you can prove Opera is superior to others with ease.

By saito, # 16. February 2006, 18:06:15

*Makes love to it*

By jackpea, # 16. February 2006, 18:13:06

"Opera should set the standards, not FF"

Stop whining. If FF make a good open standard, Opera should follow and vice versa.

By minisu, # 16. February 2006, 18:50:27

Oh no! I am against Firefox and Microsoft dictate. It's not a good standard. This icon is badly designed, misleading. I think I will create a my.opera group for people who are against the icon.

By Jakub81, # 16. February 2006, 18:53:34

"You are using a skin then. -Icfu"

I am! - Tango CL, actually. Interesting. Thanks for pointing that out.

By MrFrodo, # 16. February 2006, 18:56:08

Make some another icon! That's icon is already in use by another browsers, why we must be like them??? Give some money to designer, and let him make good icon special for opera.

Anyway i will not use it

By KvaZaR, # 16. February 2006, 19:11:30

Oh, no :-(((((((((((
Well… I put some aditional icons to standart_skin, so it will be easy to change this ugly icon to old and nice… $)
But, I wait tomorrow build, hope to it`s fixed some of my bugs… $)

By Kildor, # 16. February 2006, 19:22:30

I'm really glad that I have a choice...

By hermen2048, # 16. February 2006, 19:25:43

Please make it some color that matches the other opera buttons

By pLastic01, # 16. February 2006, 19:29:31

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=1438813

By MarcFou, # 16. February 2006, 19:36:53

Seems like most people were against the idea when I brought it up here: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=116370

Anyway- it's a step in the right direction... but some of the protesters here are justified in asking to perhaps change the color. Look at the other defacto-standards on our toolbars between IE, FF, and Opera: the Refresh icon is different colors and design in all three browsers, but still the basic idea is there. The home icon is very similar in FF/IE, but still easily ID in Opera.

The home icon is cheating a bit since that's an icon representing a literal item, but the refresh icon is more suitable for comparison as it represents a more abstract or intangible thing like a Feed or subscription.

By elcid73, # 16. February 2006, 19:39:40

Good choice! Great that the major browsers now will use the same RSS icon

By LordDaimos, # 16. February 2006, 19:40:15

>> Stop whining. If FF make a good open standard,
>> Opera should follow and vice versa.
Besides I don't like "discussing" with people using childish "stop whining"-aggressions, you deserve a more precise answer:

This is not a good standard because
-the icon says "Attention, broadcast available!". So, in fact I would LOVE such an icon as a symbol for multimedia streams offered by a website, for example (P2P-)TV and (P2P-)Radio stations, but NOT for an RSS feed which is something completely different.
-I am repeating myself – the icon is not an original one. Stealing ideas from others without asking or giving credit is unwelcome.

@MrFrodo:
You're welcome.

Icfu

By Icfu, # 16. February 2006, 19:48:46

if we need the same logo as firefox (agree it's good for newbies and we have other feed than rss, of course), it can be better to have it in red colour (more red than orange :-)) as oblerone said, red is our colour :-)

By helenka, # 16. February 2006, 19:52:23

Great news indeed! Glad you found FeedIcons.com useful.

Now, we need to get on Apple to adopt the icon and we'll have all the 'big guys' on board.

By Matt Brett, # 16. February 2006, 19:57:16

I think this icon isnt so nice and good-designed, that I have to have it. ;-)
But I have another small problem: When I have the big progress-bar on the bottom of the page (with speed, time etc.) and If I open the side-bar (by clicking on it) and then close it, the big progress-bar is like choped off from the right side. This problem is from version 7.54 and is still there...
And the last thing. Thank you for releasing the weekly builds. I thing its the best idea ever...

By bubersson, # 16. February 2006, 20:28:54

I think the orange button fits very well into the opera colors. The reload button is orange and both buttons represent renewal/change.

Maybe you should carry the orange button style to widgets too.

By jakob, # 16. February 2006, 20:36:21

i am going to use a skin to get rid of this icon

By Sushubh, # 16. February 2006, 20:41:07

I hate it.

By xErath, # 16. February 2006, 20:47:34

At first i liked it, but on a second thought opera could use something of its own.

By Ramunas, # 16. February 2006, 21:09:54

It's a freaking icon. Some of you people act like Opera was bought by Microsoft or something...

By DJ SkaM, # 16. February 2006, 21:25:37

You should add an option to make it blue, so it blends in. If it isn't already, that is.

The symbol is more meaningful than the color.

By mcovey, # 16. February 2006, 22:07:44

I have suggested a "comprosime" some time ago: http://ilyabirman.ru/meanwhile/2006/01/02/1. (The blog is in Russian, but you still can see the picture).

My +1 for the reddish icon. It could even follow the skin's color theme in some way...

By ilyabirman, # 16. February 2006, 22:14:05

Um, now this isn't just a Firefox gimmick, it's supposed to end up in IE 7 as well (the same icon). It's a standardized icon to make it easier for users to understand that feature, not intended as a cheap rip-off of Firefox.

"At first i liked it, but on a second thought opera could use something of its own."

But that's not the point! The whole point here is to use something NOT of its own.

By Northgrove, # 16. February 2006, 23:40:39

I hate it too.

By miltonari, # 16. February 2006, 23:43:50

The icon sucks! but then again its a great thing for all that there will be a standard.

By chesss, # 17. February 2006, 02:26:21

Ugly? No. But please make it red or blue.

By zyph, # 17. February 2006, 02:49:51

From http://www.feedicons.com/

"Customize

Not a fan of orange? Download the package and customize the icon to your liking. We believe that as a symbol, the feed icon is recognizable enough that it doesn't need to be restricted to one colour."

Then I dont see any problem... ;]

Greetings,

janbar.

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By janbar, # 17. February 2006, 03:29:04

not only colour sucks, icon ugly itself, fortunately it can be easely cuttoff from skin… ;-)

By Kildor, # 17. February 2006, 05:44:14

bad icon...

By mark_poleon, # 17. February 2006, 06:14:26

How bout a blue version, that way it retains some degree of the Opera look.

By nzMM, # 17. February 2006, 06:27:54

At least make it blue...

By Jakub81, # 17. February 2006, 07:50:31

This icon is awful and meaningless (3 semicircular bars? What the hell?). But if standarization is such an important thing, I think you should be more consistent and standarize the program icon also, that is replace Opera icon with Firefox icon :> .

By archetwist, # 17. February 2006, 10:37:30