Re: [libreoffice-design] Flat/Symbolic Icons Update

Thanks Alex. 

Oh, and one thing I forgot to mention: New icons should also be Retina Display compatible. It would 
cause quite a frustration if new icons looked blurry on new Mac displays. Just a reminder. 

Apple provides optimization guides on these links:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/GraphicsAnimation/Conceptual/HighResolutionOSX/Optimizing/Optimizing.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40012302-CH7-SW1

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/userexperience/conceptual/applehiguidelines/IconsImages/IconsImages.html

But I think these are already scalable, so if someone with a Retina display could test it, that'd 
be great. 

And Issa, thanks again for the great mock-ups.  

Best regards,
Emir


20 Şub 2013 tarihinde 03:12 saatinde, Axel şunları yazdı:

> Issa, nice work. My first choice goes to the colored version. As additional argument, I was 
> knowing that our brain is built to recognize the colors faster than the symbols and then symbols 
> faster than text. If all the symbols have the same color, you need to decipher the meaning of few 
> symbols to pick the one you want. So, ++ for colors from me.
>
> You made the samples using the large version of icons and this is ok for now, but when creating 
> the final icons, we must be sure they look very well at small size.
>
> Emir, I agree with all your areas of concern and I think we'll resolve these step by step.
>
> Kevin, it is a good idea to have color coded icons, but there is a catch: sometimes is better to 
> create contrasts to highlight the significant element of an icon even if this requires to drop a 
> rule you'd like to keep. For example, look at Spelling and Grammar / Auto Spellcheck icons. The 
> only difference between them is that tiny underline. What if the first icon has the check mark 
> gray? Maybe this is not the best example because here could be a better solution to 
> differentiate, but the basic idea is this should be judged from case to case.
>
> From my point of view, if everyone agree we need a colored version, I think our next step is to 
> select the colors we want to use. The ones used in this mockup look somehow "sad" for my taste. 
> What do you think? When this step is done, we should discuss the symbols that we think could be 
> improved or we agree they have problems. (How do you think is easier to track the discussions 
> around each icon? Should we create a new thread for any icon we want to analyze/debate? Or maybe 
> is better to work in wiki pages to see together the icons, their history and the related 
> comments?)
>
> Axel
>
> On 19.02.2013 22:45, Kévin PEIGNOT wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I (finally) found the proposal by Mirek for Color coded icons (included
> > in the fabulous Citrus UI proposals) :
> > http://clickortap.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/color-codes/
> >
> > I would like to know what people think of this idea. As I already sayed
> > long time ago, I personnaly think this adition could help find the
> > icon/fonction users are searching more easily. Anyway, If some people
> > think the idea is good, we could complete the flat icon set (maybe
> > reusing some of the faenza icons), then make user testing with this
> > color coded option.
> >
> > Kévin
> >
> > Le mar. 19 févr. 2013 21:36:52 CET, Emir Yâsin SARI a écrit :
> > > Looks absolutely fantastic!
> > >
> > > -Emir
> > > 19 Şub 2013 tarihinde 22:06 saatinde, Thibaut Brandscheid şunları yazdı:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Issa Alkurtass<ialkurtass@kacst.edu.sa>wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Before we get any further with them I wanted to see what people thought of
> > > > > the idea so I mashed together the buttons for the main toolbar
> > > > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Symbolic-test.png
> > > > > Since we don't necessarily want to go monochrome we can have our own
> > > > > colored version of them as well
> > > > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Symbolic-test-colored.png
> > > >
> > > > ++
> > > >
> > > > They look better then the current ones but the LO UI feels still cluttered
> > > > with so many icons displayed.
> > > >
> > > > Areas of concern:
> > > > * Icon shape starts at different
> > > > highs<http://ubuntuone.com/70gT9RcCdaGO2GIcHYsxjn>(the printer button
> > > > is higher then the new-file button...)
> > > > * Icon lines are too thick and make them look a bit blurry
> > > > * The icons are a bit too round for my taste
> > > > * The UI of the drowdown menu feels out of place (all those thin lines)
> > > >
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