Re: [libreoffice-design] Updated Tango icons

Hey Alex,

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Alexander Wilms
<alexander.wilms@zoho.com>wrote:

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> Hi everyone,
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> I committed some new icons, maybe you want to give some feedback.

The icons look excellent, certainly a big step up from what we have now.

I do have some nitpicks, though:
(These are usually miniscule details, don't let the length scare you.)
- The lighting on the left circle on the lc_numberformatpercent seems too
strong.
- lc_outlinebullet, lc_defaultbullet, and lc_defaultnumbering have a lot of
space at the bottom, which makes them look uneven.
- lc-outline icons, lc_incrementlevel, and lc_decrementlevel shouldn't use
navigation icons - the sub/superscripts in the lc_subscript and
lc_superscript icons are too small. How about we use the icons Inkscape
uses? [1]
- lc_autosum seems too sharp/thin, which doesn't really fit well with
Tango. What's wrong with the icon we have now?
- lc_paragraphdialog and lc_controlcodes both use the same Paragraph
symbol, yet they have nothing to do with each other.
- The lighting on the lc_formatarea is too dramatic and it's hard to make
out the left border.
- lc_selectmode uses a shadow and thus doesn't really fit with the rest of
the Tango icons
- lc_shadowed looks more like a glow than a shadow
- The wrench in the lc_tabledialog uses a shadow, but it doesn't use a
shadow in any of the other dialog icons.
- sc_insertannotation doesn't seem to follow standard Tango lighting
- The outline of the highlighter in lc_backcolor is not very sharp (at
least on left part of the yellow tip and the orange body).
- lc_insertdraw uses a paintbrush symbol, which portrays painting rather
than drawing. We might think about using a pencil or a pen instead.
- lc_lineendstyle has a different lighting intensity than e.g. lc_rightpara

> I'd prefer to use white icons for the shapes of the drawing toolbar,
> but these would be hard to recognize when using a bright theme or
> windows. So what color should we use?

They go fine on my computer (on a white background), but they might be
harder to see on a screen with worse contrast.
If we decide we want to use a color, I would use the default shape fill.
Right now it's an ugly shade of blue, so we should change that first.
Perhaps the lightest Tango Sky Blue?

> How did your presentations go? Did you put up the slides somewhere?


They'll hopefully be put up soon.

[1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Themable_icons

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