Hello,

Here is another stab where I keep the gulls in the logo, scroll down to
october 15th.

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO4.1+-+Desktop+Icons

These are high contrast.  You can desaturate them and they are still
distinguishable.

Samer Mansour

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Drew Jensen <drewjensen.in...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Howdy Samer, et al
>
> Nice stuff - I think perhaps I'm in the minority, looking over the
> responses, but I rather like the rounded (Exploration 2) icons -
> particularly as depicted in Win 8.
>
> Rounded or squared however, they are all a fresh breath.
>
> Gulls - I understand about many wanting to loose them. I think the iconic
> value is rather high though with existing brand recognition. That I suppose
> can be maintained else wheres in project/application resources.
>
> Just curious, with these new icons would you consider them high contrast or
> would you expect that the project (you, I suppose ;-)  would need to also
> produce HC equivalents for whichever set is selected?
>
> Thanks for your work here, very much so
>
> //drew
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Peter Junge <peter.ju...@gmx.org> wrote:
>
> > On 10/10/2013 11:53 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 11:01:09PM -0400, Samer Mansour wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I'm proposing to have the icons (and related assets) updated for AOO
> >>> 4.1 release. I would like to take the responsibility to see this gets
> >>> done.
> >>>
> >>> Here is the icons that need to be updated:
> >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/**
> >>> AOO4.1+-+Desktop+Icons<
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO4.1+-+Desktop+Icons
> >
> >>>
> >>
> > I like the flat icons very much.
> >
> >
> >
> >>> Related asset:
> >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/**
> >>> AOO4.1+-+Application+And+**Launcher<
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO4.1+-+Application+And+Launcher
> >
> >>>
> >>> You can see two examples of ideas on the first link. You can also
> >>> suggest your own ideas verbally by commenting on the wiki page or
> >>> visually by attaching it to the wiki. (Please don't reply ideas in
> >>> this mailing list, let us know if you have trouble)
> >>>
> >>> I am putting a deadline for the idea submission and discussion in 30
> >>> days, November 9th, 2013.  Once we reach the deadline, we will have
> >>> a separate discussion for optimizing for the best user experience.
> >>>
> >>> This is not a contest or a call for public proposals. This is regular,
> >>> needs to be done, no-bikeshedding-please work. When the deadline Nov
> >>> 9th arrives, if there is more than one viable solution, we will try to
> >>> reach consensus without a end user vote.  eg. We will not be doing
> >>> what we did with the logo, that was a special case because it is the
> >>> face of AOO.
> >>>
> >>> Samer Mansour
> >>>
> >>
> >> The About dialog does not look good with the orb in the header, the old
> >> version looked nicer than the current one
> >>
> >> Old version:
> >> http://people.apache.org/~**arielch/images/AboutDialog.png<
> http://people.apache.org/~arielch/images/AboutDialog.png>
> >>
> >> Current one, removing the orb from the header:
> >> http://people.apache.org/~**arielch/images/AboutDialog410.**png<
> http://people.apache.org/~arielch/images/AboutDialog410.png>
> >>
> >
> > Looks very nice.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
> >> To test different approaches, just replace about.png in the program
> >> folder (where soffice.exe is located), for example with this one
> >> http://people.apache.org/~**arielch/images/about.png<
> http://people.apache.org/~arielch/images/about.png>(there is no need to
> >> restart the application).
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >>
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