>> Branding from version 3.6: 0 >> Proposal by Aexyn.com: -2 >> "V1" by Javier Antonio Nisa Ávila: 0 >> "V2" by Javier Antonio Nisa Ávila: -2 >> "V3" by Javier Antonio Nisa Ávila: -2 >> "GIn-V1" by k-j: -2 >> "GIn-V2" by k-j: -2 >> "Minimal" by Medieval: -1 >> "ages" by Medieval: -1 >> Proposal by Pedro: -1 >> "Clear_Full_Official.png" by Mateus.m.luna: -1 >> "Clear_Full_Pref.png" by Mateus.m.luna: 0 >> "Clear_Green_Official.png" by Mateus.m.luna: -1 >> "Clear_Green_Pref.png" by Mateus.m.luna: 0 >> Proposal by Alexander Wilms (original PNG): -2 >> Proposal by Alexander Wilms (at the right of the new SVG): -2 >> Proposal by Maxim Darák: 0 >> Proposal by H.Sparks: 0 >> Proposal by G Sparks: -2
Okay, if I did this right, I think I voted for H.Sparks and J.A.N.A's V1 designs, and voted against everything else. Now, my reason for this is kind of simple: One of my long held, complaints, against Star Office, then O.O., then L.O., was the slavish devotion to copying Microsoft Office, aka the sewer of office processing. I've long been a vocal critic wondering why the O.O. developers, now L.O. developers, did not aim to replicate or emulate widely regarded as superior office suites such as WordPerfect. As I look through the list of "designs" handed out... most of them don't do anything new. Part of that is due to the restrictions placed on the branding redesigns, which harks back to /Stop Aiming for a Sewer./ There isn't even an attempt to be artistic, or even a try to actually have a good impression. If anything, the ostrich-in-sand mentality seemed to be on full display with the original choice for the rebranding, which several people I personally showed it to did not even realize the branding HAD changed. Javier Antonio Nisa Ávila and H.Sparks at least have entries that at 10 feet away, I can tell something changed. I can tell there was effort put into trying to make something that is attractive to look at, not just functional for the sake of being functional. People I showed those entries also recognized that something changed. Like it or not, that's where Libre Office needs to go. At some point things are going to have be done differently, and even creatively, and hopefully artistically, in order for the end-user to realize that things really *Have Changed.* -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/4-0-Branding-poll-tp4032751p4032774.html Sent from the Design mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
