Created attachment 633049 [details] screenshot of described gap Description of gap: Missing icons in the front of account services (Windows Live, MS Exchange and Enterprise login) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-online-accounts-3.6.1-1.fc18.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Online Accounts 2. Try to add new account 3. Only Google & Facebook have icons, rest is without icon and it looks like unfinished, not polished Actual results: feeling of semi-done application, missing icons in the front of online account services Expected results: all offered services have the same "face" - e.g. all of them have icons, not only some of them Additional info: screenshot uploaded
Windows Live and MS Exchange used to have icons, but they were removed. Partly because of trademark concerns and in Windows Live's case we simply could not find one visual identity that uniquely identifies it. eg., sometimes they use the butterfly logo, sometimes they use the Windows logo and so on. We never added a logo for Kerberos because neither does it have a strong visual identity that people identify it with nor could we find a logo that would look good in that list and at that size. See the discussion on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679253 That said, the we should probably have a generic symbol representing such icons.
Thanks a lot for your feedback, I didn't expect it such fast. Really appreciated! I understand the reasons now (thanks for that link). Windows Live - we could use the same icon that appeared in Ubuntu 12.10 (window icon) so both distributions use the same by default. Just my opinion but I think it is not so important if there is logo just like window or butterfly or 2-3 little persons. People will understand meaning of all of them (and if not, they can still read). MS Exchange - agree there is no unique icon / logo for this groupware application. But Google finds good examples for searching of "ms exchange icon". Icon containing symbol of watch and envelope could be good representative of groupware service. But any other is fine as well. Again, as above, people will read the name of service anyway. I guess, we can use any icon we want. People can change icon-set if they wish to do so. From my own opinion, important is to have some icons there. Current status looks poor. If the final decision is without icons for these 3 services, then remove the existing 2 icons as well to give that application polished (but boring) view / face.
We really don't want to add icons for those which don't have a strong and clear visual identity.