XnView Software

Sorry, I have very little time at the moment.
Here is a quick one:

a simple one with the Center "C" letter standing out for the for C onvert.
http://www.thibaud.be/dropbox/XnConvert_03.png
and a more complicated one, "C" becomes less directly identifiable though once you highlight the "hidden ...

it's photoshop temp files, you should only have one and only while photoshop is running with that file opened.
multiple .tmp file might just indicate that you had photoshop crashing while editing that file and didn't clean up it's mess.

I'm able to reproduce the crash. (with version 0.32 too)
after deleting everything under C:\Users\thibaud\AppData\Roaming\XnView when xnviewmp starts it crashes if there is a zip file within C:\Users\thibaud\Pictures.

here is a last one then

here are the 3 last variations
swirl vortex was a good idea indeed,I guess the analogy with lens diaphragm blades is far from inappropriate for xnview.
http://www.thibaud.be/dropbox/xnview_logoA_02.png http://www.thibaud.be/dropbox/xnview_logoB_02.png http://www.thibaud.be/dropbox/xnview_logoC_02 ...

and a few others commonly used in the cg/film industry:

3D :
Houdini
Modo
Mari [Qt]
realFlow [Qt]
Maxwell [Qt]
Fryrender

Compositing & finishing (I defy you to find a light ui scheme application in that area):
Flame/flint/inferno
Nuke [Qt]
Fusion
Scratch
Nucoda
Lustre
Da ...

with such a good feedback, I couldn't resist but do some polishing on the icon...

xnview wrote:I like this one, and you?

The last word is definitively for you Pierre.
I do like the freshness of the orange/cyan color theme of the more "realistic" eye which we don't get in the spiral one.

here is a side by side...

xnview wrote:I think it's better. And (sorry) could you try to replace iris with the vortex of original icon?

four eyelash as requested - (if I understood correctly...)

XnTriq wrote:The letters in “xnview” turned out really great.
I also like the effect that makes the reflection on the iris look like an extension of the eyelash:

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well spoted ! that's the detail I liked too.

I've tried a few symbol variations..(on color & neutral bg)

still have a preference for the bottom one.

slight update and declination of the various size icons (all hand pixel hinted)

here is a new proposal, in color this time...

not totally satisfied with "Xn" letters yet.

Please try not to make assumption about what most users prefer.(it not necessary and it doesn't make your own opinion more valuable).

So you think most users would not voice any qualms if Pierre was to suddenly enable the dark theme as default.

No.
Most commercial photography software have ...