Love the icon. Love even more that you are considering support for SQLite. That would be an incredibly huge win for you as there are no good GUIs for SQLite for the Mac.

I love Sequel Pro and I love that support for SQLite is being considered, but I have to say I really do not care for that icon. It really looks like a Windows style icon and not an OS X icon.

Looks like a windows icon! Really ugly, sorry. (I will use the old one)

Hating it since it first appeared in the nightlies, sorry.

I could get friends with that white database thingy (though I’m missing the third ring), but the tools look dull, aren’t well integrated into the overall look and look like they are some last-second-gotta-get-this-thing-done solutions.

I really loved the old one, especially the golden nighly one. But I understand that things have to change. Maybe a open contest or something like that?

Agree to Shawn and Tobias, and like i twitteranswered you, looks Windowsish. I will use the old one, or create me one myself…

I’ve been using SequelPro fro about 6 months now – it’s just awesome!

Dolphin’s are okay but they belong in the sea – I think the new icon rocks; it’s a toolbox for SQL, so what’s wrong with a spanner and a screwdriver in a toolbox?!

Keep up the awesome work guys.

Nice icon! Especially with the SequelPro roadmap in mind, this seem to be a very good choice.

And I would love SQLite support! If it’s as good as the MySQL support now I wouldn’t use any other database tool anymore.

too bad that this icon made it to the relase candidate, the old icon was just awesome! i really dont like the new one.

SQLite support has me really excited. Keep up the fantastic work!

The new icon is really bland. Even the old icon with an embossed wrench instead of an embossed Dolphin would be better. The old one had a great “chrome” man-tool feel to it. This one feels like…Disney.

Not to be crass, but the new icon looks like tools shoved into a toilet paper roll. That said, I’ll still use the app regardless of icon. But, if I had my choice, I’d prefer to keep the dolphin.

I’ll echo some of the thoughts posted above; I love the upcoming SQLite support, but I don’t particularly care for the icon. It leans too much to the Windows cartoony style for my tastes. Won’t stop me from using it though!

+1 @ Nathan Smith – definitely looks like someone is planning to do some ‘fixing’ in the restroom.. would be great for a ‘lav janitor’. Hope you reconsider, if not, guess we can always replace it in the app contents, manually.

Thank you all for your feedback, I hope we can come up with an icon which everyone is at least happy with. We don’t have any skilled designers on the team, and the few we do know don’t have much spare time, so it’s a big struggle.

We will continue thinking up ways to improve the icon and keep you all posted. If any of you are willing to help out with design work please contact us.

just started using Sequel Pro, and love the current icon (the app is even better, will donate when I get some extra cash).

keep the old icon and just replace the dolphin when SQLite is supported.
maybe use the letters “SQL” or is there a universal sign for query? that would be cool

The new icon is a turnoff. I think the tool metaphor is tired, and the way they stick out ruins the pleasing roundness of the toilet paper roll. Yet, with the loss of the dolphin you’re forced to come up with some kind of distinguished mark, otherwise the icon is too generic. I admit it’s a tricky problem.

Hey, you’ve made it just there into my dock http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/7de291b4e6.png !
The new icon is nicely drawn, however I think it lacks the “compactness” the old one had : the tools going up in my vertical dock seem too close to the next icon.

Another vote against the icon on the grounds that it feels like it belongs on Windows. Where’s the creativity in the new icon? Coda is a leaf, Safari is a compass, iTunes is a CD (not an iPod). I certainly do NOT take a wrench or a screwdriver to my database…rarely do people use a wrench or screwdriver to configure anything hardware related nowadays…there’s just no link there. It’s an outdated, over-used, flawed relation.

I think the old icon could have been modified to address the coming support for other sequel databases without throwing it out and starting from scratch.

I love your program and recommend it to all my friends. The only negative is the new icon. i actually came here to see if I could get the old icon back

The support for SQLite is great to hear! Not very excited about the icon though. App is looking great otherwise!

New Icon is fantastic! I had no idea those other databases were on the roadmap for the future. Way to go guys! I’m behind you all the way. Any chance we’ll get MSSQL support too?

I concur with other comments: the tool image is becoming cliché in computer/tech icons and the colors smack of Windows. The previous icon had that nice metallic finish to it that matched the look I’ve come to appreciate on the Mac. Probably best to follow a concept that communicates “data” with a visual signature that sets it apart from the rest of the crowd and not try to hard to make a visual statement that’s overly obvious and commonplace.

The website fav icon is still a dolphin. :p

I’m sorry to say but it reminds me of a roll of toiletpaper :S
please, anything but that
I’ll try to think of sg myself, to be constructive tho…

I have to agree with most other, the icon is Windowsish and the Wrench and Screwdriver are really over used these days. Still the icon doesn’t effect how much I love Sequel Pro. Looking forward to many releases to come! (Super stoked about the SQLite support mentioned!)

I love Sequel Pro, but as with many others here I am not very keen on this new icon. I did like the old one, but for fun I decided to make a quick and simple icon myself.

http://yfrog.com/0fscreenshot20100113at003p

If anyone is interested I will try and upload it somewhere.

Bad, bad, bad icon. What are you thinking?

…Oh, but great application!

I too came here to see what was up with this icon…
do not like!
@Dan, its ok.. but looks stolen from Adobe/Macromedia
@everyone I think you’ve mistaken “windows” with “bad”. Stop saying its a Windows Icon. Thats insulting.
I agree with Nathan Smith; tools shoved in a toilet paper roll.

@Na Wong, nothing personal. Just try again. I know I can’t draw icons so it might seem unfair for me to pick on your work… and it is…

Not a big fan of the new icon. Not at all. Please come up with a more suitable icon for this awsome program. It deserves it.

To echo the other sentiments, not a fan – does look a like a toilet paper roll. I was (surprised myself) disappointed when it changed after an update.

For me, it’s just an icon, doesn’t stop me using it!

The icon doesn’t look good on snow leopard, it’s too white (i cannot see it when have a white page open on the back) and specially to people like me with dozens of icons on the dock, try putting all icons you can on the dock then open a code editor on the back. Icons were designed to be easy to spot and know what app it is. Great app!

Love the old logo, I feel the new one is too generic, I thought it was a default utility icon until I found this page.. not the same without the dolphin!

Keep up the great work guys.

Arthur

The 0.9.6 icon simply rocks. No comment about the “new one”.

I’m really starting to miss the old icon. Is there anywhere I can get it?

Just a comment about the icon :
Usually, the classic database icon has on it – at least – two horizontal lines, I did not catch at first that it was representing a DB
See
http://www.google.fr/images?tbs=isch%3A1%2Cisz%3Ai&sa=1&q=icon+db

I like the new icon, however for some reason, while it look sice and sharp in the finder preview, it looks very pixelated when running in the cmd-tab list and dock, and also the Applications folder stack grid from dock.
Does anyone else have this happen?
It’s very noticeable, it’s like the wrong resolution is being used in those cases.

I like the new icon well enough, but the old icon was nicer. How about this:

use the old icon until you get postgres working. Then, rather than just a dolphin, make it a dolphin playing with an elephant (synonymous with postgres). Fabulous!

SequelPro is my favourite mysql tool by far and I miss it now that I have to work with postgres all the time now. Any indication of when pgsql support is due? I’d happily pay for it.

I too would be very interested in postgres support.. I know it is on the roadmap.. but just how far down the roadmap?

Love sequel pro!

Whats the status with postgres support? Any news for us?

@Henry – download an old version of Sequel Pro (0.9.6 works), and use Get Info (Command-I) to copy the icon from the old version of the app, and then Get Info again to paste it over the icon of the new app.