Re: Re: [libreoffice-design] Icons

Hi all,

anybody interested to take the lead in user testing the quality of the LibO 
Icons can send a mail to me - the plattform for doing so is now available, 
and I would offer to assist (but not to lead) on this topic!

Best,
Björn

Am Donnerstag, 14. Juli 2011, 12:17:28 schrieb Astron:
> Hello.
>
> > > pretty (and this may be unrelated, but can we please 1) Get rid of
> > > that
> > > hideous gray/black gradient on the down arrow at the end of toolbars--
> > > it looks really bad and breaks up the GUI
> >
> > Seems that other guys think similarly - kudos to Kendy :-)
>
> Kendy removed the entire arrow, not just the gradient on it. That's
> not quite the same. I'm unsure if I'm ambivalent about it, or if I
> feel the same as you -- that this removes some usability.
> Anyway, the gradient looked okay on older Windows versions, because it
> was square. However, newer Windows and Linux version use rounded
> buttons, so the square gradient stuck out. One solution would have
> been to remove the gradient (but that would probably look odd), the
> other to make the gradient round, the down arrow native, and the
> button outline slimmer so that it fits tightly around the gradient.
>
> > By the way (serious question) is anybody (but e.g. Bernhard) following
> > the developer list and the planet?
>
> I don't follow the dev list. I follow the planet (sometimes it would
> be nice if more of the devs blogged, on the other hand that of course
> takes away from coding time).
>
> > Mmh, at least for me it is already difficult to distinguish most of the
> > icons visible per default - the design is kind of abstract and removing
> > (most of) the color among (in the source files) shape reduces
> > distinctiveness.
>
> I agree with you there.
>
> > > > Now number one has been discussed almost to death on this mailing
> > > > list but number 2 also needs to be addressed.  Tango is a quite
> > > > ugly icon pack that looks bad on anything apart from certain
> > > > linux themes.
>
> It might be a start to import newer Tango icons from Gnome (3). They
> look quite a bit better than the current ones, which are from the
> midst of the Gnome 2 cycle.
> Take a look at Gedit, for instance:
> http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1_JqAwhfSQ4/Tc4S-
m4iOmI/AAAAAAAAAIs/dlkFrhQymns/s1
> 600/gnome3-gedit.png
>
> Astron.
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