Re: [libreoffice-design] Some new icons

Þann mið 22.ágú 2012 07:35, skrifaði Stefan Knorr (Astron):
> Hi Sveinn,
>
> it's probably worth noting that you don't have to "ruin" your icon set
> any more to try out different icons in LibreOffice 3.6.

Don't worry, the LOdevBeta2 installation was heading over 
the digital Styx anyway ;-)

> What you need to do, is go to the folder where there images_*.zip are
> stored, and create a new folder there, with the same name as the
> corresponding zip file.
> I. e. for Tango that would be a new folder named "images_tango". Then
> you have to recreate the bit of folder structure you need for your
> icon (usually that's just "cmd") and place the correctly named icons
> in there.

So, does it work without being compressed into images*.zip ?
Neat, if so.

> It's not very well documented so far – if you can think of a good
> place where to stick this in the wiki, let me know (or just do it).

I've had problems logging into the wiki (? a third-party 
captcha ?), but will try again when I have more time on my 
hands.

To me it seems that the logical place for such information 
would be a dedicated page, accessible from 
<http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Playground>
or via an introductory phrase in the # 3) Design section on 
<http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design>.
The <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Visual_Elements> 
page is more about Artwork than UI, but could be 
restructured a bit.

But just now I found this: 
<http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Icon_Themes>, of 
course this info could be added here. The page itself could 
be very useful if we would add to the unfinished Resources 
and their sub-pages. This page really should be referenced 
on some of the pages mentioned above.

There's a nice little README in 
<http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/icon-themes/ 
which may be of interest and should be mentioned in the text.

One crazy idea (which maybe merits a separate thread); what 
if we'd ask a nice dev (who has some spare time) to make a 
new theme according to the README above, let's say named 
libreoffice-test. This would only be released with Beta and 
RC packages (just like the classic-theme is not released at 
all).
To quote: "An icon theme does not need to contain all 
images, since these can be layered one on top of another".
So, instead of directly modifying an existing (tango) theme, 
we'd add to this libreoffice-test for proposals and direct 
testing (by many more people during the hectic QA-phase of 
Beta/RC-testing). Sort of what us l10n-people do.
Once testing/agreement has been reached, the 
libreoffice-test theme could be renamed just libreoffice and 
become default theme in a new official release (depends on 
distribution).
IMHO this way we could profit from broader/accurate testing 
and instead of hacking an existing theme we'd progressively 
build a new theme/themes. And those uncomfortable with new 
icons could easily go back to their old favourite icons 
(e.g. unmodified Tango).
Sounds feasible ?

Sorry for the lengthy post.

Best regards,
Sveinn í Felli


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