>
> > I think a good first step would be to clearly document all the icons
> > needed in LibreOffice, naming conventions and other criteria (size, uses,
> > fileformat, etc...) Maybe the result could be a sort of icon-map table
> > (similar to a character map) for LibreOffice. Maybe this exists already
> but
> > I haven't found it yet. There's some useful info on <https://wiki.**
> > documentfoundation.org/Design/**Whiteboards/LibreOffice_**Initial_Icons<
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/LibreOffice_Initial_Icons
> >
> > >.
> >
> >I agree, maybe we should use a wikipage for that (Something like that
> >http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/NeededIcons<http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/NeededIcons>-
> > Scuse
> >me I don't have time to make more today but it's a starting point)
>

Yes, I believe this will be a good idea and we can have guidelines for
reference.



>
> >The institutional and Darkish ones, as they are monochrome, can be
> >considered as One icon set to design I suppose, just changing their colour
> >then... Maybe changing color is possible within the software (having a
> >basic icon, and software change it's color automatically ?) The colorful
> >one can stay the Tango one in my way (even if I prefer Human)
>
> >And we mustn't forget the High Contrast one
>


IMO, as we are an office suite, our final icon set should match an
institutional need of icons. In my opinion, dark, sober and sharp
monochrome icons qualify with this requirement. Thus, I feel, that the
icons must be of monochrome nature.

In terms of design, I like the icons which Google Docs (
http://www.ezoubi.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/new_old_look_icons_google_docs.png)
use, and am thinking on that lines.

Also the basic icons visible in the this Citrus Mockup (
http://cdn.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/find1.png) look clean
to me.

Again, this is a personal view and choice may vary from person to person.


In terms of implementation, i believe that it would be a save of time and
effort if we begin with using an existing theme. I am not sure if we have a
tool which could apply some property (say something like a monochrome layer
over the icon) across an entire icon set, and I will do some research into
this. If we do manage to get this as a script, we could run it to create
mono-chrome versions of a few icon-themes like tango, and then see the
result and choose and modify accordingly.

(The script idea may be a bit naive and I am not sure of the intricacies
involved, but I am willing to work for this if I get a positive response).

-- 
Bhaavan Merchant

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