Le 18/02/2013 08:06, Emir Yâsin SARI a écrit :
+1
And monochrome icons are the ideal icon types for a possible "native" OS X
interface. For that reason it would be logical to have a complete monochrome/flat icon
set at hand.
Emir
(it's not a direct answer to you Emir, but to the whole thread)
I would like to share some few reflexions about this subject :
- the "flat/monochrome icons" subject is more about *usability* than
just aesthetic ; IMHO, it's a waste of time to just want to change icons
without a UI evolution.
- the endless discussion about having our own design rules or following
each os rules has to be closed by the TDF.
- why is there the general assumption that color in icon is bad ?
As a user, the color is really helpful for me : i know that the "save as
pdf" is the red one on the top left corner (ok, it's just my only
opinion so it's not an argument)
- when you compare with Thunderbird, look how many icon are in the
default toolbar ? 6 plus the new "menu icon" at the far right.
most important, these 6 icons have a label.
- how many icons in LO ? ~40
- we should also take care of the size of icons : it changes a lot the
perception of icons
- As a jqueryUI user, I found a theme preview with icon preview :
jqueryUI.com/themeroller
in the left column, select "gallery" then the "flick" theme.
Then scroll the page to discover the list of icons.
There are monochrome/flat. If it was a real toolbar, would you be a
happy user ?
- In the wordpress editor too, they use monochrome icons. As a user, it
slows my workflow because I have to really precisely search/look/select
the icon I want (again a personal feed-back).
- Such a subject is very important and should be handled very carefully.
We need to follow a standard and professional way of doing :
- collect proposals
- create prototypes
- test prototypes by real users
- iterate until a prototype has a very high feed-back (we'll never
have 100% positive feed-back)
- only then, integrate the new icon set in a public release.
LibreOffice has *millions* of users and they expect a lot. We have to
release new UI only if it has been strongly tested and validated. We
can't consider users as early testers because it's not their job.
Thanks,
Michel
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