Re: [libreoffice-design] New icon set

Hi all,

I don't know how feasible this would be, but IMHO it would be great if 
LO could use some of the systems icons. I don't know whether thats 
possible on Win or Mac OS, but on Linux, the systems icon could be used 
which would adapt to icon theme changes.

Alex

Am 04.02.2012 22:27, schrieb Mirek M.:
> Hi everyone,
> I've never made an icon set, and if we want to produce one, we need to
> ensure that it is quality and consistent. We need an experienced icon
> designer to coordinate this effort -- anyone up for that role?
>
> 2012/2/2 Kévin PEIGNOT<peignot.kevin@kpeignot.fr>
>
> > Sorry for all this time since my last mail...
> >
> > So I think we really should design a new icon set. The very first point is
> > to brainstorm do we really want the icon set to be bi-color based according
> > to Mirek proposal. Personnaly, I think yes, because it can help a lot a
> > basic user who don't know what icon he search, but know what it's for.
>
> > Then, I'm sure some people will hate that, so maybe we should also have to
> > decide ifthe actual way to change icon set (Tools>Options>display I suppose
> > (Outils>Options>Affichage in French) is enough. It's not difficult, but is
> > it enough discoverable ?
> I would downplay icon customization, not because I want to force users into
> a single icon set, but because sustaining a single icon set (or, rather,
> four icon sets derived from a single one: dark, light, dark mono, and light
> mono) will be much easier than sustaining several. If we're striving to
> make a quality native LibreOffice for Android, we're going to have to make
> an icon for just about every command in LibreOffice and the set will have
> to be monochrome, to conform to Android's design guidelines. And if we
> focus on a single icon set instead of four, we'll have one awesome icon set
> instead of several mediocre ones.
>
> To make icons conform to the design guidelines of a specific OS, we could
> use this one set as the basis of a specific one -- add shadows, change
> lighting, etc. It's much easier to work from mono- or di-chrome icon sets
> than from complex, multicolored ones.
>
> That said, I would prefer if icon themes were treated as extensions rather
> than having a few sets hard-coded into LibreOffice with no obvious way to
> add or remove them.
>
> > So Call for opinion and judgment : Say what you think about the idea !
> >
> > Kévin
> >
> > 2011/12/11 Tobias Bernard<bertob93@gmail.com>
> >
> > > i'm in.
> > >
> > > regarding tools and formats, i think inkscape + svg is the best solution
> > > for the reasons mentioned here:
> > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Collaboration
> > >
> > > tobias
> > >
> > >
> > > 2011/12/11 Mirek M.<mazelm@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > > I want to talk about making a new icon set, if people here are up for
> > it.
> > > > The icon set would be much simpler than the current one, all icons
> > > > utilizing only two colors. I'm bringing up the idea because I'd like to
> > > > modernize the icon set.
> > > > Here's the whiteboard:
> > > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Flat_icon_set .
> > > > Tell me if you'd be interested in working on this. If so, we'll need to
> > > > decide on how to proceed, what format to use, what resolutions to
> > > develop,
> > > > how we could automate converstion of colors to get a light version of
> > the
> > > > set and high-contrast versions, etc.
> > > >
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