over 7 years ago from Alice Chuang, Product Designer at Facebook Messenger
It's a wedding ring, get it?
Thoughts? I groaned at the visual pun, but I don't hate it! I think it's more clever than the original icon, which was just basically a circle.
A wedding ring was my first idea as I saw the new icon. I generally don't really like the new style of the icons. They are clean and fresh, but way to hard to differenciate due to the lack of colors.
So to be short. I liked the old icon more.
Simplifying for the sake of simplifying. No added value.
I'm on the same boat. They lost all legibility and make me want to jump back to the command line.
Another thing — branch name colors don't match the branch graph colors. What's up with that...
Dropping separator lines in the history log is also a bit annoying for me.
This. 4 of the new icons use thin stroke circles and rely on small extensions (arrow up, arrow down, dotted line, diamond shape) to distinguish them. The job of finding the button you were looking for is harder than it was before...
Not a fan of the new UI at all. The icons are too indistinct but worse than that they seem to have hidden away a lot more functionality behind menus etc now.
Might push me to finally learn to use Git from the command line though.
It's always good to learn git from the cmd. I personally like the github for mac app, but problems still need to be solved on cmd.
I've started using Kraken lately. In beta and rudimentary, but really good at what it's doing. http://www.gitkraken.com/
Maybe I'm a prude, but I don't fancy giving a tool that I can't even see screenshots of access to my repos
Kraken is getting some serious momentum. FAQ explains a lot http://www.gitkraken.com/faq
Old one for reference:
BitBucket (also by Atlasssian) uses this for their 'Commits' section:
Which I think is clearer - it's one node in the history that makes up branch.
I kind of agree with you, but commits and add new commit (which is the case of Sourcetree) shouldn't really have the same icon.
Oh for sure, but as you can see in the old one, a derivative of the same basic shape works pretty well and is very clear.
True! Didn't realize they were the same shape with an arrow added on top.
It's clever, but I'm not sold. I wouldn't have realized that it was specifically supposed to be a wedding ring without someone telling me.
It's left me wondering what a better icon for "Commit" would be, though! I think this is silly, but memorable.
I had to revert to the older version since the latest version UI issues is so bad. Unclear icons, some features(git-flow) are hidden by default, etc. Yes, the old version looks pretty dated but at least it's usable.
Any source for the previous version or did you get it from Time Machine? I've only got version 2.0.3 in my backups.
Got it from their twitter (They're acknowledging it).
Updated my Sourcetree today, Version 2.3, and Atlassian has replaced the commit icon! This is no bueno...
Update: sent them a tweet...
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