hi i've seen your libreoffice-ui mock-ups some time ago and really liked them;) by the way, what's happening there? is someone currently working on a new ui?
concerning the faenza icons: maybe i didn't explain well. what i meant wasn't changing the whole format to faenza style. i like the document symbol as basis for the icons and think it's perfectly suitabele for that. the reason i linked the icons was to show what i was meant with black border/colored sheet. i like the icon proposal you linked with the colored icons. i'll work a bit on that. greetings tobias Am Donnerstag, den 10.02.2011, 05:22 -0200 schrieb Paulo José: > Hi Tobias! > > First I want to wish you a warm welcome! I'm sure you'll have too many > good experiences and learnings as I'm having since I recently became > part of this group. :D > > About change the mimetype icons, I believe that Christoph's words > already expressed all my thinking about it. If you have a look in the > past wiki archives, you'll find many proposals and different ideas that > came from all community and they grew up and evolved to the current > icons. But, as everything in the open source world, propose new and > refreshing ideas is ever welcome; since they add improvements based in > past experiences. > > Personally, I'm a fan of Faenza icon set and i'm using it under Ubuntu > there are some months already. But I think the Faenza's don't fit very > well with others icon sets, since they have its own "look and feel" > (seems a lot like IPhone icons...). And we must to keep the most of > nativeness in every platforms. So I think the choice for using the > symbol from The Document Foundation is a accurate decision to stay on. > And I think it include to keep the borders around the document symbol. > > On your other suggestions, I personally think pictograms are really > great in small icons, when you need say something accurate in a small > space. But in the big icons they seems a bit out of place, giving much > less information than they could/should. The fine artistic details are > one of the best things I see in the Faenza icons. But I agree with your > third suggestion. Some color (maybe less saturated than your first > proposal [1]) would make the icons more vivid and friendly. These days > I'm back to my work, so I'm unable to try this, so if you could, it > would be great. :) > > I hope to see you doing more suggestions, showing more proposals and > helping us like you're doing. :D Thank you for your interest! > ~Paulo > > [1] - > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/cgi_img_auth.php/3/31/LibO_icons_draft.png > > On 08-02-2011 13:37, Tobias Bernard wrote: > > hi > > > > first of all, i'd like to say that i love libreoffice and would like to > > help you guys in some way. > > > > these days, i've read that the new libreoffice icons are going to look > > like this: > > http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9MZR46ZEuS8/TURcYGZPRkI/AAAAAAAAAuE/si2R_93DT_M/s1600/New256pxIcons.png > > > > i don't know if the icons will remain that way, but personally, i don't > > like how they are now. In my opinion, the main problems are: > > - the colored border: it's fine for blue and green, but yellow and > > orange look really bad > > - the pictograms inside the sheets: too comlex, too many colors that > > don't go with the border color > > > > so, my major suggestions are: > > - leave the border black/grey for all the icons > > - choose some simple, monochromatic pictograms for the single programs > > - maybe color the inner part of the sheet, instead of the border > > > > i did these faenza-inspired libreoffice icons, because i didn't like to > > see the openoffice faenza icons on my gnome-desktop. When you see them, > > you'll have an idea of what I mean. > > http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=138257 > > > > if that's possible, I'd like to help improving the icons, which i think > > don't have yet the style they deserve. > > i work with inkscape and gimp on ubuntu maverick. > > > > greetings > > tobias bernard > > > > > > -- > Paulo José O. Amaro > Computer Science Student > Federal University of São João del-Rei > WebDesigner / Linked Empresa Júnior > Blogger / casatwain.com > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
