Hi Mirek, On 11/16/2014 03:46 AM, Mirek M. wrote: > 2014-11-16 0:24 GMT+01:00 Jay Philips <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > Yes the gnome 2.20 style is alot better than the glossy gnome 3.0+ style > at the 24x24 icon size. We are only using the older style for the text > based icons like bold, italics, underline, etc. It is still tango as its > using the gnome 2.20 style. > > > Could you point me to your source for the Gnome 2.2 icons? > From a quick Google search, it seems as if that version used the old > industrial icons, at least judging from e.g. > https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.2/ , and those are > definitely not Tango.
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-icon-theme/2.20/ > Also, quoting the Tango guidelines: "Having homogenous lighting across > all icons also is important for visual consistency. Tango icons are lit > from above, with the light source slightly to the left. Icons with /on > the table/ perspective may cast a fuzzy shadow on the surface as if the > light source came from the position of the observer. " > If we have a flat icon set with no regard for lighting, then it > shouldn't be called Tango. Well if we need a gradient on the stroke to keep it inline with Tango, then we can apply a suitable one to keep it in line with the guidelines. > Yes it always best to stick with the guidelines but we shouldnt be > willing to bend the rules when there are suitable cases to do so. I'm > not an icon designer, so all i'm doing is patching up icons which are > already present. I'll let the designers decide what best works for you > guys, as i dont have the skill to comment on this. > > > The guidelines are there to maintain consistency, and icon size is a > pretty important point. > > Also, the new icons don't present one or two exceptions to the rule -- a > number of icons go over the margin. In this case, it's clearly better to > change the guidelines. Then i guess the guidelines should be to strive for 22x22 and worse case 23x23. > I didnt create the style, i took the gnome 3.12 > format-indent-justify-text.svg file, made the stroke a solid color, > changed the gradient to be similar to the 2.20 gradient and reduced the > shadow transparency by half. > > > You're creating the style by implementing it. > Since we need a cohesive set and have more than one designer, there need > to be some guidelines for creating icons with this new style. Well i'll have you and Alex write up what is needed as i'm still a newb at icon designing. :D > My github username is philipzae. I'd be honored to be included in the > file, though i wouldnt truly be able to contribute to the svgs. :D > > > I just sent you an invitation. The file is there primarily for licensing > reasons -- if the team needs to change the license, it needs to contact > every contributor. You should contribute through GitHub directly, so > that if you disagree with a relicensing, the team can simply remake the > icons you worked on. Didnt get any invitation on github, or is it i just dont know where to look, but it isnt in my notifications inbox. -- To unsubscribe 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
