Hi, Just FYI, we now have people on the discuss list asking how the decision was made, so can you confirm there was a new icon that was used in the Tango category?
Thank you, Charles. 2011/12/31 alexander.wilms <[email protected]> > Hi all, > > since we want to avoid to use outdated hardware as a symbol we should > exclude the icons displaying hard drives as well. > > Alex > > ---- On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:40:19 +0100 Stefan Knorr (Astron) & > lt;[email protected]> wrote ---- > > > Hi everyone, > > On 31 December 2011 11:39, alexander.wilms <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The designers of the Linux distribution elementary OS had the same > discussion some time ago and they came up with a document icon with an > arrow that points to the bottom: > > > > http://s1.directupload.net/file/d/2755/7zq47tgh_png.htm > > We also have the following variations: > Gnome 3 (almost Tango): > > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-icon-theme/plain/gnome/256x256/actions/document-save.png > (large size for toolbar: > > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-icon-theme/plain/gnome/24x24/actions/document-save.png > ) > > Upstream Tango: > > http://web.archive.org/web/20081112055133im_/http://tango.freedesktop.org/images/2/20/Tango-feet.png > (For the smaller icons, see the ~middle of the second row, for the > larger icons see the icons near the end of the second row.) > > Ubuntu/Human (-ity) (not Tango, but designed to be about compatible): > > http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D1EpnOVJuA8/TPUebzxfoqI/AAAAAAAADTw/K7fm7gzEGEQ/s1600/abiword01.png > (third icon). > > > * Of the three variation, the Gnome icon is actually my favourite, > because it has a bit of depth and (I think) communicates the idea of > storing best. Sadly, we can't directly import it, because it's > LGPL3/CC-BY-SA only. > > * We could import the upstream Tango icon (it's public domain), but it > doesn't have much depth and the fact that the white-ish thing in there > is actually a hard drive doesn't come across very well. > > * Ubuntu's icon does have a better rendering of the hard disk, but is > LGPL only, and not a Tango icon. (Gnome 2's Tango theme had a very > similar icon – green, not orange arrow, slightly different drive – but > that probably had the same license as their current icon.) > > * Lastly, the Elementary icon is, I believe, pretty bad at > communicating anything. Even its elegance can't really make up for > this. I haven't researched the license, but it's probably LGPL as > well..? > > These are opinions only, so feel free to disagree. If anyone wants to > work on this, you're welcome to do so. > > Astron. > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
