Re: [libreoffice-design] LibreOffice Icons

Hi Tobias!

First I want to wish you a warm welcome! I'm sure you'll have too many 
good experiences and learnings as I'm having since I recently became 
part of this group. :D

About change the mimetype icons, I believe that Christoph's words 
already expressed all my thinking about it. If you have a look in the 
past wiki archives, you'll find many proposals and different ideas that 
came from all community and they grew up and evolved to the current 
icons. But, as everything in the open source world, propose new and 
refreshing ideas is ever welcome; since they add improvements based in 
past experiences.

Personally, I'm a fan of Faenza icon set and i'm using it under Ubuntu 
there are some months already. But I think the Faenza's don't fit very 
well with others icon sets, since they have its own "look and feel" 
(seems a lot like IPhone icons...). And we must to keep the most of 
nativeness in every platforms. So I think the choice for using the 
symbol from The Document Foundation is a accurate decision to stay on. 
And I think it include to keep the borders around the document symbol.

On your other suggestions, I personally think pictograms are really 
great in small icons, when you need say something accurate in a small 
space. But in the big icons they seems a bit out of place, giving much 
less information than they could/should. The fine artistic details are 
one of the best things I see in the Faenza icons. But I agree with your 
third suggestion. Some color (maybe less saturated than your first 
proposal [1]) would make the icons more vivid and friendly. These days 
I'm back to my work, so I'm unable to try this, so if you could, it 
would be great. :)

I hope to see you doing more suggestions, showing more proposals and 
helping us like you're doing. :D Thank you for your interest!
~Paulo

[1] - 
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/cgi_img_auth.php/3/31/LibO_icons_draft.png

On 08-02-2011 13:37, Tobias Bernard wrote:
> hi
>
> first of all, i'd like to say that i love libreoffice and would like to
> help you guys in some way.
>
> these days, i've read that the new libreoffice icons are going to look
> like this:
> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9MZR46ZEuS8/TURcYGZPRkI/AAAAAAAAAuE/si2R_93DT_M/s1600/New256pxIcons.png
>
> i don't know if the icons will remain that way, but personally, i don't
> like how they are now. In my opinion, the main problems are:
> - the colored border: it's fine for blue and green, but yellow and
> orange look really bad
> - the pictograms inside the sheets: too comlex, too many colors that
> don't go with the border color
>
> so, my major suggestions are:
> - leave the border black/grey for all the icons
> - choose some simple, monochromatic pictograms for the single programs
> - maybe color the inner part of the sheet, instead of the border
>
> i did these faenza-inspired libreoffice icons, because i didn't like to
> see the openoffice faenza icons on my gnome-desktop. When you see them,
> you'll have an idea of what I mean.
> http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=138257
>
> if that's possible, I'd like to help improving the icons, which i think
> don't have yet the style they deserve.
> i work with inkscape and gimp on ubuntu maverick.
>
> greetings
> tobias bernard

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