Re: [libreoffice-design] MimeType icons - Base

Hi Christoph, all,

Christoph Noack schrieb:
> Hi all!
>
> Am Sonntag, den 09.01.2011, 00:26 +0100 schrieb Bernhard Dippold:
> > (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!
>
> I missed that, so there is plenty of opportunity to others ... the
> Master Doc is also pretty important, I think.
>
> I tried to "play around" with the Base icon during the last two days,
> but it is pretty difficult. I fell back to the original "stack" idea,
> since it is rather hard to include all the database relations and the
> objects and keeping a unique and easy-to-identify look.

As I thought you would work on the Impress icons, I too had a look at 
Base, but my results are quite similar: It becomes too detailed, if we 
include too much information.

The present state of my work (uploaded to the wiki [1]) contains a bold 
lined Base icon, comparable to Writer.

In-between there was another version with a form and a report added to 
the symbol - while the form might be understandable (at least I think 
so), the report doesn't work at all.

But if you want to have a look (or use it as resource for additional 
work), I uploaded it too [2].

> [...]
>
> Now, I'm curious how you perceive the "background" idea for the 128px
> icon. I've added it to get a more or less harmonic style ... considering
> Writer and Calc. Unfortunately, the icons start to differ given their
> level of detail (per size).

I had similar thoughts about the "0" and "1" as representing the content 
of a database. But I turned away, because the users will not think about 
this kind of content: The recordsets they store in a database are mainly 
texts or numbers - related one to another in different ways.

The binary representation is rather something for people deeply involved 
in computer structure, perhaps source code...
> Comments appreciated, of course!
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/3bH3699NZy4_amlco6XwzQ?feat=directlink
[1]: 
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOffice_Initial_Icons_Bernhard_draft_0-1.svg

[2]: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Initial_Base_Idea_Bernhard.svg

PS: Christoph, would you mind licensing your work under the triple 
license in the wiki (CC-by-sa, LGPL and MPL)?
I had to stick to CC-by-sa because my work is based on yours.
For easier inclusion of the resulting images it might be worth while to 
license all the steps to this result in a license that allows inclusion 
of the work directly in LibO without getting approval by every single 
contributor...

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