Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Home for the breeze icon theme

On 08/01/2016 06:51 PM, Pedro Rosmaninho wrote:
> I thought it was possible to discriminate the Windows version to present
> a distinct icon set per version.

I'm not sure if it is possible as i dont know how the installer works.

> Since Tango doesn't look native to Windows I think using another icon
> set with a more native feel would fit better, even for previous versions
> of Windows. For example, Office 13 and 16 also adopt a different design
> language than Aero but they don't look out of place in Windows 7.

Most apps on windows dont have native looking icons in their interface 
similar to the windows OS. Here are screenshots from 2 of the top 10 
downloaded apps on windows.

http://images.six.betanews.com/screenshots/1100194579-1.png

http://antivirus-freedownload.com/proimg/avast.jpg

> And barely anyone is using previous versions of Wnidows to 7 after the
> end-of-life for XP.

Yes Vista pretty much disappeared once 7 arrived, but XP is still 
holding in there with 7 to 10 percent, which is quite close to what Win8 
has today. Win 7 is king with ~45% and Win 10 is ~22% thanks to the the 
1-year upgrade giveaway that just ended, and many users were 
automatically upgraded. But now that that free upgrade is over, i dont 
see Win10 going over 30% for the forseeable future, especially when Win7 
will be supported for atleast another 3.5 years and users can still buy 
Win7 laptops today. Also the year of the linux desktop seems to be near. ;D

> I also think that Sifr looks better on MacOS than Breeze. A lot of work
> was done in these icon sets that look native in these two OSes. It is a
> waste not to put them front and center to the LibreOffice users on those
> OSes.
>
> Much like Tango is perfect for Gnome and Breeze also for KDE.

Might be a useful thing to ask users in the proposed welcome dialog 
(tdf#91441) so that they can make this choice after they install LO.

Yousuf.

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