Hi Anne, Right now, Stefan Knorr (aka. Astron) is in charge of replacing some of our current Tango icons with newer ones from the Gnome project. He's currently making a list of icons we could replace outright and icons that need to be tweaked, and, until that's done, there's no work to be done on this topic yet. I'm not sure what the original reason behind making Tango icons default was -- I can only speculate that it was done to distance the project a bit from OpenOffice.org and be more in line with other open-source projects, many of which have also opted to use Tango icons.
If you'd like to help out with the current icons, you'll have to ask Astron or wait a bit until he releases a list of things to work on. There was also an initiative to create a new simpler set of icons, but it has been shelved until an experienced icon designer shows up and takes charge of it: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Flat_icon_set . If you'd like to lead that, you're welcome to. If you'd like to help out in general, take a look at the things we're working on right now: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design#Our_Current_Endeavors . If you're more of a visual designer than an interaction designer, you might be interested in our call for templates: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Call_for_Templates . You also mentioned being interested in accessibility -- you might want to subscribe to the accessibility mailing list by sending an empty message to [email protected] . 2012/5/21 Anne Arundel Locker-Thaddeus <[email protected]> > Hello, part 2... > My background also includes several design classes (at the hobbyist level), > and concerns about accessibility, so I see myself as an informed > layperson. > > I have reviewed what discussions are available to me (not much, just one > page on the DF wiki:Design/Tango refresh 3.6; and one Nabble discussion: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/New-icons-in-Tango-td3905093.html#none > ) > but I would like to know more about the history and the decision to use > Tango icons before I jump in to discussions. > > Thanks! > Anne Arundel > -- 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
