Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: [gubro-br] [OT] Open Letter to the design team

On 02/23/2011 08:43 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> HI Paulo,
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:17 AM, Paulo de Souza Lima
> <paulo.s.lima@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > It seems there are unhappy people out there. Have you seen this?
> >
> > http://thelinuxbox.org/news.php?2011/02/21/an-open-letter-to-the-libre-office-design-team.html
> "open letter" sounds as he would have tried to communicate directly
> beforehand, at least for the website I don't remember anything like
> that. Probably the same for the artwork - commenting from the outside
> without being involved..
>
> Regarding his proposed icons: Always much easier to create huge ones
> that look nice, but those aren't for real-live use. Unless I see ones
> in the range of 20px... And while the globe idea is not bad, he did
> choose only to display north america...
>
> "Everything in this presentation was done in a day, therefore a
> dedicated team of volunteers should be able to achieve much more than
> me."
>
> <yawn/>
>
> But bad press is better than no press (when it's clear that its a
> personal view, not presented as "facts")...
>
> ciao
> Christian
Well, where is the Draw and Math icons in his set?  I did not know their 
were any separate icons for templates with one for each template file 
extension or purpose.

And yes, it would have been nice to have this "conversation" from this 
person in the lists or with the development and design teams.  I also 
agree that images that look nice as a large one may not stand up in the 
"standard" icon sizes.

I wonder about the "bad press" idea or issue.  IF there are people out 
there reading this article and never heard of LibreOffice, then either 
they are put off or they are going to have a look at the package to see 
what the icons and such is all about.  I hope those who know LibreOffice 
will take this as a personal view, not fact, as you stated above.


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