Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: New icon set

2012/2/22 Bhaavan Merchant <bhaavanmerchant@gmail.com>

> > > I think a good first step would be to clearly document all the icons
> > > needed in LibreOffice, naming conventions and other criteria (size,
> uses,
> > > fileformat, etc...) Maybe the result could be a sort of icon-map table
> > > (similar to a character map) for LibreOffice. Maybe this exists already
> > but
> > > I haven't found it yet. There's some useful info on <https://wiki.**
> documentfoundation.org/Design/**Whiteboards/LibreOffice_**Initial_Icons<
> >
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/LibreOffice_Initial_Icons
> > > > .
> > >
> > > I agree, maybe we should use a wikipage for that (Something like that
> > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/NeededIcons<
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/NeededIcons>- Scuse
> > > me I don't have time to make more today but it's a starting point)
>
> Yes, I believe this will be a good idea and we can have guidelines for
> reference.
>
>
>
> > > The institutional and Darkish ones, as they are monochrome, can be
> > > considered as One icon set to design I suppose, just changing their
> colour
> > > then... Maybe changing color is possible within the software (having a
> > > basic icon, and software change it's color automatically ?) The colorful
> > > one can stay the Tango one in my way (even if I prefer Human)
> >
> > > And we mustn't forget the High Contrast one
>
>
> IMO, as we are an office suite, our final icon set should match an
> institutional need of icons. In my opinion, dark, sober and sharp
> monochrome icons qualify with this requirement. Thus, I feel, that the
> icons must be of monochrome nature.
For the colour, I think Mirek proposal is great, because, using Android
guidelines if I remenber, it explain cases for dark as for light
Background. The first problem for me is : *How do we decide if we make a
monochrome icon set or a not monochrome one ?* Wikipage for voting ?



> In terms of design, I like the icons which Google Docs (
>
> http://www.ezoubi.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/new_old_look_icons_google_docs.png
> )
> use, and am thinking on that lines.
Google using this seems to show it's not a too bad idea ;)

> Also the basic icons visible in the this Citrus Mockup (
> http://cdn.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/find1.png) look
> clean
> to me.
>
> Again, this is a personal view and choice may vary from person to person.
>
>
> In terms of implementation, i believe that it would be a save of time and
> effort if we begin with using an existing theme. I am not sure if we have a
> tool which could apply some property (say something like a monochrome layer
> over the icon) across an entire icon set, and I will do some research into
> this. If we do manage to get this as a script, we could run it to create
> mono-chrome versions of a few icon-themes like tango, and then see the
> result and choose and modify accordingly.
Great Idea. And then making one icon set (I mean color) and including this
script in the software to generate the others colors ? Should we ask on dev
mailing list if this is possible / if it would need lot of CPU/memory
resource

> (The script idea may be a bit naive and I am not sure of the intricacies
> involved, but I am willing to work for this if I get a positive response).
>
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> Bhaavan Merchant
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