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Pt.2 of the Kbird mascot. Thoughts on these two designs? (media.kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by minnieo@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Again, based on @FixedFun 's original designs so creds to them for the idea.

Thoughts about these ones? For the one on the right, I tried a different angle to hopefully give more bird and less bald man.

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[–] HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It can't be done, but I would be tickled pink if the left image was the default icon and the right image was the icon if I have notifications waiting for me. 🤣

[–] valaramech@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is 100% doable, but probably not worth the effort.

[–] 2d@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As an iOS app icon?
As an icon on the website definitely yes, and since it’s open source, maybe somebody will disagree with you.

[–] valaramech@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know anything about iOS development. I know it's possible to add pills to an icon if you have notifications, but I have no idea if iOS gives you the ability to change what the icon looks like. Because we'd be talking about a PWA, the tools may also be a little different.

As for browsers, I actually misremembered how favicons worked. After refreshing my memory, This is actually much less effort than I originally expected. Assuming an instance wanted to implement this, they could just change the link that defines the icon based on the currently logged in user's number of notifications.