Hi Bernhard, here, I'd like to offer a rough guess ...
Am Montag, den 29.11.2010, 11:48 +0100 schrieb Dr. Bernhard Dippold: > What is the UX reason for providing three sets of icons besides a > combined set for application/documents and another one for templates? Because it is common behavior :-) One reason for that (I think) is, that many software applications support numerous file types. Thus, several file type icons relate to one "main" software applications (e.g. think of graphic files being displayed by one tool). In LibO, we do have these separate modules (e.g. Writer, Calc, ...), the main software icon (e.g. on Mac OS X for calling the StartCenter). Consequently, there is a need to supply at least some module / application icons. Especially since we are somehow bound to the desktop user interface guidelines, or at least, common behavior. Data type icons don't show up in the Start menu, for example. As I said, this is my take on it ... there hasn't been any further research or depth analysis :-) Cheers, Christoph -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/design/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
