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My specific beef with the official client would be lack of lazy bitfield, which I need to seed over my connection. Good to hear that uTorrent on Wine is coming along
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Well, congrats BSH.
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/2031/uticon7dv.jpg
The winnar.
Thanks to all who participated.
BSH, please supply a largish transparent PNG of the creation above. You shall be credited
*pokes head in*
Ooh, neat
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someone please tell me how to put jpg images into these messages.
i have made some really cool pics that i want to post.
Upload your image to ImageShack or some other host, and copy-paste one of the lines they give you into your post. (make sure to Preview your post to see if it works; If not, try a different line)
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A late entry, but how about capturing the small size and lightness of a seed blowing in the wind?
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/602846/2/istockphoto_602846_dandelion.jpg
A stylised icon or an animated gif would be cool .... but I'll leave that to the artists.
I kinda like this idea
Also, the hummingbirds do look neat
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Not bad...
Still favoring the flat green guy, but hummingbird sounds interesting. -
He said that he liked the tribal guy a couple pages back...
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I stand by the simple flat version. *nods*
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Still favoring the tribal thingy...
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Shrill's icon being shades of green only doesn't bother me.
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Hmm, cute
One little thing, though... I think the eye on the left is slightly obscured. It doesn't fade from white to green quite as smoothly on the right edge:
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Perhaps a crow? as in microwtorrent
Perhaps a cow? As in mootorrent
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as for the logo, too similar to the shuffle i think..
Well, I guess it is a lawsuit waiting to happen... -_-'
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I see the µ. Do you?
Heh heh...
Surprisingly, I did some more stuff with the shuffle.
Something funny occurred to me while I was playing with it... the long crossed arrows are supposed to look kinda like µ, for the µTorrent client, and the short arrow should look like T, for torrent. This is why I originally had the µ green and the T blue. But when you really look at the picture, it's just the opposite: The long arrows represent the flowing torrent data, while the short arrow is the µTorrent client. The imagery isn't self-consistent... ^_^'
But anyway, I decided to swap the colors so that the "starting" arrow is green, and the flowing torrent data is blue. Seems to make more sense that way.
The flat version kinda loses the µ and T appearance, but I'll just toss it on the pile anyway. (It's actually not the base image I use for the tilted version, btw)
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Hmm, I like the tadpole and hummingbird suggestions
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Thought of that too. Very hard to use any other living thing to represent small size though.
Maybe a rodent or small bird... XFCE uses a mouse. Pretty cute, if you're into that sort of thing
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I thought of the insect idea too, but that has the drawback of implying utorrent is... buggy ^_^'
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Here's something... it's pretty much just a bastardized shuffle ^_^'
It's supposed to vaguely resemble a µ and a T...
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ps> I like Huck's better than the rest so far... maybe a little fiddling, adding some color and shadow, but I like the concept so far. Just... please... no more green?
How 'bout blue?
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I guess you're asking people to create totally new imagery, like Azureus did with the poison dart frog (gosh knows where that came from... looks nice though). Ok, fair enough a suggestion
OT, but the scientific name for the poison dart frog is Dendrobates azureus, and as far as I know that's where the name for the program came from.
Ahh, that would explain it
OTOH, this leaves µTorrent with... the µ -
New idea - logo and icon SmallFootprint v1.
µTorrent has a very small footprint, so why not make an ikon of it
Hah! Cute idea
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What I'm trying to point out is that, we don't necessarily need a µ in a circle, or square. Lose the µ even. For example, I remember azureus used this purple box with an A in it in the old versions, they have now migrated to somewhat more of a "brand"- the blue spotted frog. Like Firefox doesn't USE a F in a orange circle. Nor does Winamp use a W in a square.
One of the earlier Firefox logos (IIRC in the late "Firebird" days) was in fact a shiny F against a globe
Besides, the name "Firefox" very readily lends itself to imagery. µTorrent mostly just gives you smallness, simplicity, and the µ symbol to work with.
I guess you're asking people to create totally new imagery, like Azureus did with the poison dart frog (gosh knows where that came from... looks nice though). Ok, fair enough a suggestion
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A logo, people. Not an icon! We're looking for something that will instantly be recognized, like azureus' blue spotted frog (), firefox's orange fox around globe, winamp's lightning strike thing, foobar 2000's scary alien-cat, etc. Come on, even mirc has something nicer than a µ in a green circle
But all the examples you're citing basically are icons
Either way, I like the four-box Simple icon -
I nominate Determination's Simple icon,
but would prefer a bigger 16x16 version:
or 
I also nominate Blackice's icon.
Still favoring the flat green guy, but hummingbird sounds interesting.
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The new website has gone live, but there's still no way to sort skins by date