The final icons turned out like this:

Left to Right: Windows, Mac, Linux

This is based on an idea from Alex Faaborg. Instead of just using a plain globe there are red orbital rings(LASERS!) locking onto your position. The red is in contrast to the blue of the globe. Relaying some level of warning that a website is requesting your location.

I also sketched and rendered a few other ideas that didn’t make the cut:

The final result looks like this on geolocation pages:

Once the panel styling is updated it should look more like this:

More notification icons to come in the future!

The New Theme project page has been updated with an extended(and idealized) timeline. I plan on spending much of my time this week getting everything lined up and editing the timeline as necessary and monitoring it going forward.

Mac Theme Patches

Markus has posted some patches for the Mac theme including toolbar buttons, location bar and tabs.

It also works nicely with Personas.

Windows Theme Progress

Dao has landed a patch for new tab styling.

Panel Styles

Last week I did some work on styling panels(specifically notifications) on various platforms. Something I have been meaning to do but was prompted by Gavin’s work on notifications and the need for split button visual styling.

Windows

Everyone on the UX team liked the Glass Border approach. It is consistent with Windows 7 taskbar panels(with the addition of the half-diamond) and feels lighter.

I also did some work on how this could look for panels outside of notifications like the talked about Downloads panel.

Mac

An updated Mac notification panel with split button.

Linux

Ideas for a styling the panels in Linux.

Other Theme Stuff

Designed an edit “tray” that would appear when editing text.

Had some thoughts around indicating a button that would invoke a panel.

Sketched out some of the UX Team’s fullscreen brainstorms.