Re: [libreoffice-design] LibreOffice Icons

hi

i've seen your libreoffice-ui mock-ups some time ago and really liked
them;)
by the way, what's happening there? is someone currently working on a
new ui? 

concerning the faenza icons:
maybe i didn't explain well. what i meant wasn't changing the whole
format to faenza style. i like the document symbol as basis for the
icons and think it's perfectly suitabele for that. 
the reason i linked the icons was to show what i was meant with black
border/colored sheet.

i like the icon proposal you linked with the colored icons. i'll work a
bit on that.

greetings
tobias


Am Donnerstag, den 10.02.2011, 05:22 -0200 schrieb Paulo José:
> 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
>
> -- 
> Paulo José O. Amaro
> Computer Science Student
> Federal University of São João del-Rei
> WebDesigner / Linked Empresa Júnior
> Blogger / casatwain.com



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