[Feature request] Modernizing the WCT Sample App icon

[niels9001]

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

The current Windows Community Toolkit Sample App icon is in the MDL2 style. In 2020, we'll see lots of inbox application icons modernized (more on Microsoft Design's push to re-design hundreds of OS icons here). Wouldn't be great if the Windows Community Toolkit icon would reflect this as well :)?

Proposed technical implementation details

The proposal is to redesign the current Windows Community Toolkit icon, so it feels part of the Windows 10 family of experiences (e.g. Terminal, other inbox apps)

• While add it, maybe we need to change the (tile) accent color as well so it fits in a bit more with the other icons.

• It would be great if we could design a set of icons for both the Windows Community Toolkit and XAML Controls Gallery app so they feel complementary!

WinUI repo: microsoft/WinUI-Gallery#374

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[Kyaa-dost]

Thanks for submitting this request @niels9001. Let's see what our team thinks about this idea.

[mdtauk]

When WinUI was looking to update their logo, there was talk about the Community Toolkit and Controls Gallery being part of a family of logos.

WinUI got it's new logo

And the XAML Controls Gallery is looking for an icon too.
microsoft/WinUI-Gallery#374

[niels9001]

@mdtauk Great overview. Since we're working on a new icon for WinUI Control Gallery that is hopefully very much in line with the WinUI library logo, having a similar one for the WCT would be great :)!

[michael-hawker]

Thanks @niels9001 and @mdtauk. It's been a while since our last refresh, so it does make sense to take a look into this. It would go nicely with #3183 for timing OR we could think about this for our future release that's on top of WinUI 3 (see #3106).

I don't know how much we want to align specifically with the same iconography of WinUI since we're a separate project (albeit related); however, we will be more tightly coupled specifically when we have WinUI 3 as a dependency. I'll be interested in hearing thoughts from both the community and the WinUI team, @stmoy?

[mdtauk]

This is an older idea I worked on during the WinUI logo designing

[michael-hawker]

Hey @mdtauk do you have the link to where this image was created/shared? Is it from you directly?

These were just examples and not any official image that WinUI picked up yet, eh @stmoy?

Just asking, as I saw this docs.microsoft.com using these as representative icons, so I need to reach out and see why/when they updated these (the GitHub history looks wrong).

[mdtauk]

The images were put together by me, but I found them in the UWP docs. These were before the community redesigned the WinUI logo

[stmoy]

FWIW, here is the updated XCG icon:

[michael-hawker]

I think rebranding and updating everything when we move to WinUI 3 is going to make the most sense. We'll be changing package names and namespaces, so it'll be better to message all the changes together than making big changes release to release.