Re: [libreoffice-design] Revising the icon design process

Hi Kévin,

2012/2/29 Kévin PEIGNOT <peignot.kevin@kpeignot.fr>

> Hi Mirek
>
> I agree thi sa good design process that must be tried. Then about the
> choice of align left / center / right, I'm not sure. We should begin with
> icons for the read only application (as LibreOffice for Android will begin
> as a simple reader before extending its functions), so icons like save,
> maybe export as PDF, send by e-mail... For next week maybe ?

The feature set of the Android port is not set in stone yet. I don't think
work has even started on the UI layer. "Save" wouldn't really make sense
for a read-only app. Instead of "Send by e-mail", LibreOffice should use
Android's Share button. There'll also be a file browser, the feature set of
which is also unclear.

I'm not sure how the Android LibO will deal with filetypes. Since there's
no visible central file management in Android -- all apps manage their own
files -- it'd be ideal if all files were stored as ODF files within Mobile
LibO and filetypes (Office, PDF, ...) were offered only when sharing
documents.

In any case, I chose to go with align icons as they're easy to design,
ideal for testing the new design process, and they're key functionality
that is going to end up in Mobile LibO once it gains basic text editing
features. I deliberately avoided choosing a topic for which Android already
bundles an icon (like "Search" or "Share"), since we're free to bundle this
icon under the proper license (MIT).

Once Android developers give word about the UI/features planned for the
initial version of their LibO port, I'll propose the topics accordingly.
For now, though, it's just a guessing game.

> Kevin
>
> 2012/2/29 Mirek M. <mazelm@gmail.com>
>
> > Hi everyone,
> > I'd like to rethink the whole icon design process. Based on the last few
> > days, I feel that a lot of icon proposals were drafted cursorily, without
> > really giving thought to their function, to our current icons, to
> relevant
> > art from other applications, or to Android icons. I also feel like our
> > discussions could be more productive, delving deeper to find and fix the
> > smallest issues.
> > So I'm proposing an entirely new design process, focused on a single
> topic
> > each week. This week's topic are *Align left*, *Align right*, and *Align
> > center *icons, which should be relatively easy to design. The deadline
> for
> > submitting drafts is this Saturday (wherever you happen to be, don't
> worry
> > about the time zone). You're also welcome to add links to images of prior
> > art if a certain alignment icon caught your eye. (All the submitted icon
> > drafts so far are still up on the wiki and we'll bring them up again.)
> > We'll then analyze the rough drafts and work on the final icons.
> >
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