Re: [libreoffice-design] LibreOffice Icons

Hi Christoph!

On 10-03-2011 20:44, Christoph Noack wrote:
> Hi Paulo, hi Bernhard, all!
> [...]
> One thing that might be helpful is to have a look at the icon theme and
> the source data itself. Should be available here:
> http://tango.freedesktop.org/releases/tango-icon-theme-0.8.90.tar.gz
Thank you very much for this link! I did a quick search for the tango 
source, but had no sucess.
But when I had a look at these Tango icons, I saw they are sight 
different from "our" Tango icons.

A sample:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C6wDLfl-snk/TXmTyPNRFpI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/p4gDJyYmh5M/s1600/differences-tango-icons.png

The shadow is different on each one, then right now I'm making two 
correct "shadow version".

> I'm a bit tired at the moment (not because of you, but because it is
> already very late here ...), so it might be wrong what I state.
>
> As far as I understand, the bigger icons in LibreOffice are 26px large.
> Since LibreOffice can be used on different platform, we don't always
> conform to the standards on the target platforms ... thus, when using
> LibreOffice together with the Tango icons, I think they added 2px to
> fill the remaining space.
>
> Galaxy states 26px icons "large size":
> http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_galaxy.html
>
> Gnome states 24px icons for the toolbars:
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/icons-types.html.en
Thank you for make it clear. ;-)

> Oh, the developers just changed it to the Tango icon set - but (as far
> as I know) the Galaxy set is still shipped and therefore might also need
> some icons. However, we might not need to be perfect in any case ;-)
>
> And concerning your great icon comparison [1] - some personal comments:
> Proposals 1 and 3 are close to perfect! The only minor proposal is to
> make the shadows a bit more subtle ... I cannot really say why, it is
> just the first impression every time I look at those.
You did a good point! After I saw the source file of Tango icons, I 
finally achieved the "right" shadow.

Here it's another comparison between the old and new Tango icons (from 
your linked source file and LibreOffice's version) and the Galaxy icons.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-htnB3ln0AyY/TXmvHpBHEZI/AAAAAAAAAdc/Y4INmuU74KE/s1600/Toolbar-Mimetype-Icons-comparison-2.png

The final SVG file with these 3 versions together: 
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Toolbar-Mimetype-Icons.svg 
(force reload)

> Well done, Paulo! Thanks for your work ... seems that we need to ship
> them soon ;-)
Thank you Christoph! :-D

> Although your recent blog posting asked for some more feedback, I think
> it's better to get some sleep ... and come back with a fresh mind.
Blogging (or just writing) is the best way to organize my ideas and 
avoid to forget issues, like I did with the status bar icons...

Good night,
~Paulo
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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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