Hi Clytie, all,
Clytie Siddall wrote: > > On 21/01/2007, at 10:00 AM, eric b wrote: > > Bernhard Dippold wrote: > >> So we'll have to define an iconset (not only for the UI, but as > >> application and document icons too), that can be used with minor > >> modifications on Mac OS X, different Linux distributions and > >> Windows (at least XP and Vista). And on all these platforms the > >> icons should look as if they had been specifically designed for > >> that platform. > > > > I think this point should be discussed more, because this is > > extremely important, and we need more opinions, mainly from simple > > users. > > The difficulty is that OpenOffice.org iconsets are aimed at Windows > users: > ___ > The Galaxy Design The difficulty is that OpenOffice.org is aiming at many different platforms. My concern is that we lose visual identity if we start to use different icons on different platforms. If a user recognizes a program as OpenOffice.org on a platform she didn't think of before and starts communicating about that fact, then we have the marketing impact we (at least I) want to achieve by creating a visual identity. If on the other hand a Windows user sees OOo on a Mac or a Linux distribution with different icons (there are already different iconsets for Gnome and KDE, IIRC) there are three possibilities to react: 1) "Oh - They changed the icons! Looks good :-)" 2) "Different icons? Do they have differences inside the program as well? What about portability?" 3) "Nice icons, but whatever this application may be, I'll stay with OpenOffice.org" Of course the best reaction is 1), but the next question will be: "Why don't they use these icons on Windows, too?" Option 2) and 3) are quite bad results if we look at spreading OpenOffice.org by every possibility we have. So what we need is an iconset that - gives Windows users the symbols they know - adds an Aqua / Tango / Galaxy / whatever style to the icons that can be integrated in different platforms/GUIs with only minor changes, so the general impression stays the same whether you see OpenOffice.org on Mac, Linux or Windows. I know that this task is not trivial, but it can be achieved, if we find contributors from all the different places. Windows users don't need an "oldish" style, Mac and Linux users don't need different symbols only because they are different from Windows. What we have, is a platform independent office suite. Let's have platform independent (at least for the general impression) icons too. Best regards Bernhard --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
