Paging @andreaska, VDG's resident icon wizard! :)

Cuttlefish? How can I help?

Go wild with creativity, really! Baloo is a bear, but I dunno if we want to use that for the icon. Then again Falkon's bird-based icon is shaping up nicely: T6859#127531

I'd like to see the bear as an icon. What baloo(the software) does is rather abstract. I'd prefer to neglect the functionality and go emotional with the icon.
Hi Andreas, btw. To you too, Nate!

A bear may clash with Disney's trademark:
https://www.trademarkia.com/baloo-86821985.html
which lists 'teddy bear'.

But a good, distinct icon would be very welcome! @abetts ?

Maybe it should look like a tough-looking bear instead of a cute fuzzy cuddly bear.

Note: make sure SafeSearch is on before image searching for "tough bear"

I think any icon might be better served reflecting the purpose of Baloo. A lot of users don't know what it does, and only ask "what's baloo?" after something goes wrong and the name shoes up in the crash log.

I know it's named after the bear, but I think users would be better served if the icon emphasized Baloo's relation to searching or finding files.

I started working on a couple of images to offer for review. Stay tuned.

There is an icon in the git repo:

It is png only, unfortunately. But I like the idea of the icon as it IMHO describes nicely what Baloo is.

Scaled down and simplified SVG version

baloo_48.svg7 KBDownload

I like it! Stick that sucka in a Phab patch!

I like it, too! Will you create a patch?

The mimetype icons should use the same primary color for all sizes BTW. See https://hig.kde.org/style/icon.html#mime-type-icons

It was meant as some brainstorming ideas, mostly for the systemsettings symbol. currently it uses the "kfind.svg":

For the colorful preferences icon, I like the first blue version (48) best, though using a document icon as the background kind of makes it seem like a mimetype icon. Maybe use a colored circle instead of a document?

Proposal:

I love it!

Maybe it could be less aggressive, with shorter claws, e.g.:

@astippich - the circle in the background is a very nice improvement!

Can you also show versions rendered at 32/48 px?

48px

The 32px is a little bit fuzzy, but definitely betterthan what we have currently. I would say, go for it!

Before opening a revision, I have actually a question about what to update in breeze-icons.
There are currently 32px icons under preferences:
-preferences-desktop-baloo.svg, which is a 32px version of the kfind app icon
-baloo.svg as a symlink to preferences-desktop-baloo.svg, which seems to be used by the kcm
-nepomuk.svg (!) as a symlink to -preferences-desktop-baloos.svg

Based on that, my plan would be to
-add a 48px version for baloo in /apps
-update the preferences-desktop-baloo.svg with the 32px version
-leave baloo as a symlink for now
-delete nepomuk symlink

We should probably change the kcm icon to preferences-desktop-baloo for consistency

In T7878#205298, @astippich wrote:

Before opening a revision, I have actually a question about what to update in breeze-icons.
There are currently 32px icons under preferences:
-preferences-desktop-baloo.svg, which is a 32px version of the kfind app icon
-baloo.svg as a symlink to preferences-desktop-baloo.svg, which seems to be used by the kcm
-nepomuk.svg (!) as a symlink to -preferences-desktop-baloos.svg

Based on that, my plan would be to
-add a 48px version for baloo in /apps
-update the preferences-desktop-baloo.svg with the 32px version
-leave baloo as a symlink for now
-delete nepomuk symlink

We should probably change the kcm icon to preferences-desktop-baloo for consistency

Sounds like a good plan. Also use https://lxr.kde.org to find any users of the nepomuk icon and fix those too.

In T7878#181792, @astippich wrote:

There is an icon in the git repo:

It is png only, unfortunately. But I like the idea of the icon as it IMHO describes nicely what Baloo is.

The repo still contains the old icon. Does it need to be replaced maybe?
https://cgit.kde.org/baloo.git/tree/icons

Good point. Done in D26146.