Blink: Bring back the old icon, please!

Created on 2 Nov 2018 · 22Comments · Source: blinksh/blink

I miss the old Blink icon. It was dark and fit in with the other dark icons I've used (Pythonista, Apollo, CARROT, Fiery Feeds, Overcast, etc.). The new icon is this strange turqouise that doesn't have any connection to what the app does (namely display grey text on a black screen). At the very least, a choice of icons would be good.

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anahata0108

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yury on 6 Nov 2018

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I definitely prefer the old icon, too. +1 for making the icon user-selectable.

goerz on 2 Nov 2018

hehe, I was the first one who was against. But after couple days I really like it. It is very warm and stand out. Just give it some time :)

yury on 2 Nov 2018

I don't think that "giving it time" will help. I do not like the new icon and time won't change that.

anahata0108 on 2 Nov 2018

That turquoise is extremely jarring. Providing multiple icons should be relatively straightforward, no? You could even make it an in-app purchase, the way PCalc does ;-)

goerz on 2 Nov 2018

The new icon is absolutely horrible.

avysk on 2 Nov 2018

it is awesome. just give it a day.

yury on 2 Nov 2018

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It kinda fits the last completely broken update of the program but it doesn’t mean that this acidic color is awesome :)

avysk on 2 Nov 2018

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Why not just give the user the choice? :-)

If I did any iOS development I'd submit a PR that would give the user the choice.

levex on 3 Nov 2018

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I've given it a day, I still hate it. Can we get it changed back, please? Or at least a choice? No one in this thread is in favour of the new icon except you, @yury. Did you design it? Is that why you're so attached to it?

anahata0108 on 3 Nov 2018

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As a matter of fact, I don’t mind the icon, it fits nicely where it is on my iPad. I’m in favor of choice.

levex on 3 Nov 2018

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This one is on me, so let me explain where the change comes from. I designed the original and @yury has retouched it recently so it feels great that you all loved it (or at least like it more than the new one) through the years. For those of you who just want the short version: Yes, you will be able to choose an alternate icon soon. Small spoilers ahead ;)

We have a lot of great plans for Blink in the future. Bash is the shell to your local machine. We want Blink to become the shell that connects to your cloud machines, the services you develop, or the infrastructure for your research, wherever they are and from any device. This doesn't change our idea of the simple shell and terminal, but we have a lot of great ideas of how we see them evolving. We will start to contact some of you soon to get your feedback, so reach out if you are interested to know more!

As Blink evolves, we wanted the brand to reflect some of that too, beyond just the white letters on a black screen. Of course we will allow you to configure it, to the original and maybe even to other colors. But we are also taking into account how we want to play with it on a new web and on other platforms too!

So now that you have the whole story, let us know what you think!

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carloscabanero on 3 Nov 2018

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I have given it a day. It sucks as strongly as before.

avysk on 3 Nov 2018

If that was a gallery of icon choices, I would definitely recommend adding "old-style" versions of these, too: black icon with colored circle/slash (which would include the old icon)

goerz on 3 Nov 2018

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I still love black, from proposed ones green also fine (the second one icon from the left)

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yury on 6 Nov 2018

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I, too, prefer the old icon (after several days even ;-)
B und able to choose from some option would of course be nice, but overall it's really a minor thing. First and foremost Blink is immensely useful to me, whichever color it's icon may show.