Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Our icon style

Hi Mirek and Alex,

On 11/15/2014 07:31 PM, Alexander Wilms wrote:
> Hi Mirek,
>
> I and Jay agreed that the icons look much clearer without the candy-ish
> fill, especially the "T" and the omega. Currently, the icons bold,
> italic and underlined in master use the Gnome 2.20 style, with a rather
> flat gradient and highlights. Here's a SVG comparing the different
> versions: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12598822/bold%20icon.svg
>
> I didn't attend the last two hangouts, so we didn't make a decision
> regarding the text icon style, but I could attend next week.

We discussed the icon style in last week's hangout and we decided to go
with the style i've been using (i mentioned this in the redmine thread).

> Regarding the icon size, is it really that bad if a few icons make use
> of the 1 px margin? E.g. the text lines in the bullets and numbering
> icons look too slim if one leaves the margin untouched.

I normally only go over the margin width-wise when there is a major need
for it, like in the case of the bullets and numbering icons. The only
thing that i may let go over the margin height-wise is the shadow.

> Since we want to get rid of tango-testing and remove it after rescuing
> all icons good enough for tango, I don't think it's a good idea to add
> another theme. Many Gnome apps now use the -symbolic set, so the
> inconsistency won't be that apparent.

Definitely wont be apparent on the OS with the most LO users (i.e. Windows).

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