Jan Holesovsky wrote:
Hi Kai,

(CCing Michael as he is the main 'Industrial' advocate ;) )

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Kai Ahrens wrote:

From the technical side, I already took a first look at your patches and
consider them to be ok. On the other hand, after taking a look at the
installed OOo on a GTK desktop (XFCE), I'm not sure, if this CWS is
already in a state to be integrated.

My point is, that the Industrial theme seems to be (to me) not ready for
shipment at all. This is not an art question (although this might
be also discussed), but a question of consistency. The whole icon theme
seems to be mixed, there are 'grey' icons beside 'blue' icons in one
flyer, and I had the feeling that some icons are just at the wrong position.


A screenshot would be very helpful here, I guess. Could you please provide one or two?

Of course. Please take a look at the attached screenshot taken
from Impress application. As you can see, there's definitely no
consistency in the whole theme regarding the usage of colours in this
case and this has been found by me within seconds. Taking a closer look
at the high contrast theme was not possible at all for me since
I got a kind of eye cancer soon after switching to this theme.


We definitely have to investigate here.


The Industrial icons are sized 24x24. May it be that on some places the toolbars are resized according to this size, and elsewhere they are according to the 26x26, the size of the default images?

I don't think that we have a technical problem in this case, it's
more a problem of completeness and consistency.


As a conclusion,
I consider the current OOo icon theme as the reference theme, so that
I really do not recommend the automatic switch as default, which would
give us the 'broken' Industrial on many many systems. What do you
think regarding this?


It is easy to change the default, yes. But is that really that bad? I mean, when someone uses Industrial icon theme for his desktop, I bet that it is much less consistent to have the default OOo icons there, instead of Industrial ones (though grey-blue mixed). Both Gnome Industrial icons and
OOo Industrial icons were created by the same artist, AFAIK.

I can try to introduce a check for the actual icon theme used, and default to Industrial only if it is really used in the desktop. What do you think?

Yes, I consider this really that bad at the moment. I always thought
that we have a highly professional product with OpenOffice and I don't want to have an OOo release where the default icon theme maps to
something that appears to be really hacked, and that was integrated
just to have it. This might work and this might make _some_ people
happy, but my grandma (if I still had one) would ask me if I were
a serious guy or just kidding. Do you really want to see such
screenshots in a press review? I do not...

- Kai

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