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Hi Bernhard,

Am Sonntag, 9. Januar 2011, 00:26:50 schrieb Bernhard Dippold:
just a quick comment: I really like the design - but the metaphor for
templates is not convincing and does not work in small sizes. I would
again like to bring in the idea of inverting the icon, which is as
close to the mental model of a template (german: Schablone, Schema) as
my mind brings me atm.

I tried to do a quick draft of what you suggested (it's quite quick and
very dirty if you would have a look at the source), inverting the
interior area of the template icons, but I kept the rip-off metaphor too:

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Writer_template_inverted.png

I like it. Think it is good to keep the rip-off metaphor. And the different 
types of icons are well distinguishable. 
 
For reference the link to Christoph's icons:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/7HzXZAAAGWFfgU0XzayU8Q?feat=directlink

We don't have much time left to create the icons, if they should be
included in the final release of LibO 3.3.0, so we should define quite
fast where to go.

I think both proposals have their advantages - the inverted icons look
quite dark, but are easier to differ from the document icons.

Perhaps it is possible to increase brightness / decreas saturation of the 
icons to have them both approximately in the same darkness?

I don't know if they really follow the general visual language of the
other icons...

What do you think?

In general I think the quality of the icons (template being dark or not) is 
good enough. So I will not comment on further mails. Get them out :)

Best,
Björn

Best regards

Bernhard

(who starts working on the Draw document icon)

If anybody else would try his/her skills on the Master Doc (just put the
symbols of four Writer icons or the full icons together on the main
application icon), this would already help a lot!


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