Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Inclusion of Gnome Tango Icons?

2012/5/14 Björn Balazs <b@lazs.de>

> Hi all,
>
> Am Samstag, 12. Mai 2012, 00:21:29 schrieb Mirek M.:
> > Hi everyone,
> > I've received a response from Lapo, who seems to be ok with relicensing
> the
> > icons. He also offered to design any icons we need to avoid feeling like
> a
> > mishmash icon set.
>
> This is great news. If we have a willing icon designer, we can actually
> start
> to meassure the quality of our existing icons, respecting our international
> users. This way we can step-by-step increase the quality by replacing the
> worst icons and hence ensuring a consistent icon quality over time.


I'm not sure if I would see Lapo as a willing icon designer -- he's
involved in other projects, most notably Gnome, and his time and energy is
limited (at least that's the way I see it).

I agree with replacing the worst icons first, though, of course.

> We would need a small team of perhaps 2 or 3 people who are willing to
> work on
> this topic over a longer period of time to get some real results here. We
> would have to work closely with the localization teams and we would need
> the
> icon designers willing to support us in this process, of course.


Why the localization teams? Both Gnome and Tango discourage against
localizing icons. Rather, to represent text, they use the "A" glyph, which
is the first letter in the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets.
It has been thoroughly tested in a variety of projects using the Tango
icons, like LibreOffice, Inkscape, GIMP, etc.


> I am willing
> to mentor the process and help you to do it efficiently. I can provide the
> needed tools (aGPL) including the hosting of the service.

What service? What do you actually propose to do? How would the team work?

What do you guys think? Anyone interested?
>

Icon design isn't really my turf, so not me.

> Cheers,
> Björn
>
>
>
> > Here's the message:
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Lapo Calamandrei <calamandrei@gmail.com>
> > Date: 2012/5/11
> > Subject: Re: Gnome Icon Set
> > To: "Mirek M." <mazelm@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Jakub Steiner <jimmac@gmail.com>
> >
> >
> > Hi Marek,
> > I think every icon here is made by Jakub or myself, so thumbs up for
> > relicensing this stuff whatever license LibreOffice needs. Also feel
> > free to ask any custom icon you may need, I'm a LibreOffice user and I
> > hate mishmash icon sets :-)
> >
> > Ciao
> > Lapo
> >
> > 2012/5/10 Mirek M. <mazelm@gmail.com>:
> > > Hi Lapo,
> > > Here's the complete list of icons we'd like to use (from Astron):
> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/attachment/3645733/0/listoficons.txt.
> > > If some of the icons are not authored by you, could you point us to the
> > > actual author(s)?
> > > Thanks. :)
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