[OTR-dev] OTR-dev Digest, Vol 75, Issue 1

[Nick Guenther]

On 05/05/15 06:11 PM, Allan Nordhøy wrote:
> It started with me being exposed to what Pidgin uses as an icon to signal
> the nature of current OTR-connections.
>
> At first some heads (?) forming a crowd of three for cleartext
> conversations.
> Changing into one person with a warning-sign before it for unverified
> connections.
> Verified connection are displayed as just a pictogram of one person.
> For some reason this same icon changes and displays for IRC-chatrooms too,
> still with the OTR-settings for the last opened one-to-one conversation.
> [...]
> Change the colours and you have all modes. Red for "not private", Yellow
> for "unverified" and Green for "authenticated".
>
> Or, still going with two different two designations; two megaphones, an
> envelpe with a questionmark on it, and maybe an envelope being handed over.
>
> Right now there are two instances of the same icon, one at the bottom next
> to the chat-field and another up top along with "OTR" in writing, on a
> different button to trigger the same menu.
>
> What was initially a weekend job of drawing and digitizing resulted in good
> feedback on one design, only to protract over a month, slowly but surely
> passing my own judgement, steadily holding up against attempts to improve
> it. Some pixel-fixes later and here we are.
>
> The design I made is my own, so I can license it however you please.
>
> -Allan Nordhøy (kingu)
>

I think this is a great idea. Xabber(.apk)'s recent beta has added new 
logos next to the text input box (a good idea glibly ripped from 
Conversations.apk) and it is easily my favourite feature in the beta. 
It's aesthetically appealing which helps selling crypto to my friends, 
and it's also super readable and obvious what mode you're in.

The Xabber icons are here for comparison: 
https://github.com/redsolution/xabber-android/commit/1ed13b2625d444112d85b3170c78903a11851fae

-Nick Guenther
Stats/CS, uwaterloo