On 2010/04/18 12:53 PM Bernhard Dippold wrote:
Larry Gusaas schrieb:
On 2010/04/18 11:52 AM John W Kennedy wrote:
On the Mac, the icon for a non-graphics file is a miniature of the
first page of the document, if that is meaningful, badged near the
bottom with "TXT" "PDF", etc., if the operating system knows how to
do it.
That only happens if you have "Show icon preview" checked in the view
options.
I don't use that option. It is much more useful for me to see the
program icon for opening that file. The new ODF icons are practically
useless for that purpose. The icons should indicate the program
opening that file. The new icons are useless for that purpose.
It's on purpose that they don't show any symbol for the application
opening the document. In the eyes of the supporters of these ODF icons
it is crucial to transport via the icons the information that ODF is
application independent.
And that makes them useless. Icons need to identify what is opening the
file. There is no indication of which component of OOo will open the
file. Indeed there is no indication of the actual file type (.odt, .ott,
.odm, .ods, .ots, .odg, .otg, .odp, .otp, .odf, .odb). The purpose of an
icon is to identify specific file types and the application on your
computer that will open them, not use a generic ODF label for everything.
As this decision has not been discussed and decided in the community,
I asked the CC to decide on this topic.
They should change this decision. The imposition of the design of these
icons by the ODF cabal lessons the functionality of OOo. Their
imposition of the design without the consultation of the community reeks
of the stench of an oligarchy. This has no place in a democratic open
source project.
As alternative and possible compromise I added the new OOo symbol to
the right lower corner of the icons:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/File:ODF_textdocument_different_sizes_S.png
If you added a separate colour for each file type it would be useful.
Otherwise it provides little increase in functionality.
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Larry I. Gusaas
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada
Website: http://larry-gusaas.com
"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." -
Edgard Varese
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