JRiver:
I'm the last one to lay claim to any artistic talent - but I do know what gives me a warm fuzzy. Would it be presumptuous of me to suggest that you start a contest and collect votes for the best icons to be used in MC? Not that you'd have to follow the popular vote, but it might help to do a sort of "focus group" to see what the opinons are. I'd also bet that there are some pretty great artists that would be willing to make some submissions.
If anyone's interested in my $0.005, my comment for the new MC icon: What *IS* it? It looks terrible in the systray because of the common blue backgrounds. It's not much better on the desktop and the window frame.
Is it my imagination (maybe so), or are many of the icons of lower visual (i.e. granular) quality than I'm used to?
Nonetheless, I think it's great that MC is getting this facelift. I'd imagine Microsoft spends MILLIONS on the presentation layer!
Scott-