Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Agenda for the design meeting 2018 Mar/21

Well, I totally back Kainz.
Even more so when he says he completed plenty of the icon sets and is
providing support.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 9:58 PM, kainz.a <kainz.a@gmail.com> wrote:

> *Colibre backport for 6.0 to get a bigger audience*
> +1 stuart
>
> backport the zip file for the icon theme would'n be a big deal
> but introduce a new default without a previous release could be an issue.
>
> As already written Colibre follow the icon guidelines from MSO
> and since yesterday Colibre is complete. So now I'll make design fixes
> and when someone find a missing icon, I'll happy to fix it.
>
> *One icon theme for all platforms*
> -1 heiko
>
> In general it's a good idea to have a brand or cooperate design,
> but we have Breeze for KDE/Plasma, Tango for Gnome,
> Elementary for Elementary and Colibre for Windows.
> In addition LibreOffice use also the platform style (gnome, kde, windows)
> so when you want one icon theme, than you should make also only one style.
>
> As I wrote I'm not again move icon themes to the extension wepage,
> but than LO should also get a unique design and don't fit each platform
> as much as possible.
>
>
> *Galaxy and Tango*
>
> Galaxy is somewhere "hardcoded" into the code (I don't know where)
> so I'm not sure if it's possible to remove Galaxy.
>
> Tango is unmaintained and fare away from complete.
> I moved the existing tango svg icons to a separate folder so that
> the svg files wasn't shipped any more with the images_tango.zip file
> this reduce the zip file from 8 mb to 1 mb.
>
> *Breeze, Elementary and Colibre*
>
> I updated Elementary icons for 6.0 and now Elementary is finished like
> breeze or colibre. I also maintain all three icon themes. And I think I did
> it well in the last years. All three icon themes are made in inkscape so
> all are available in svg and png. And I'll vote for make all three svg icon
> themes available in LibreOffice Online.
>
> *Community Vote*
>
> Last time we vote was a disaster (mascot, sorry). I'm again a community
> vote
> cause I don't see a benefit Colibre was designed for Windows 10 and it
> fit's
> what if the community say we want to have Elementary default. I would be
> again this vote also if you choose breeze. I like both and I think breeze
> is the most modern icon theme, but it was designed for plasma not for
> windows.
>
> I see a benefit if we involve the community to make colibre better
> to report bugs, ...
>
> *My vote*
>
> I will vote for no change for remove icon themes from the core repository
> and Colibre as default for LibreOffice 6.1
> Backport for LO 6.0 would be fine but no default change in LO 6.0
>
> And sorry I can't participate the design meeting tomorrow.
>
> --
> To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
> Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-
> unsubscribe/
> Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
> List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/
> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be
> deleted

-- 
To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted