Hello Ariel,
Sorry for being late answering you.
Ariel Lepor a écrit :
There is an issue
(http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=79809) about the icon
size for the Mac OpenOffice.org icons (icns format).
I know, and I follow this issue carefully ;)
I resized the icons based on SVGs that I found, but I thought that perhaps OpenOffice.org
should go in the way of many other companies and that is to use different icons in the Mac version which better fit in with the general
Mac OS X Aqua theme.
Yes, this is a problem. It was, because since some time, I see real
effort to have a better:
- look
- User Interface ( feel )
There are icons made by Crystal Clear (under a free license) which I think would do the job perfectly. I emailed the author
of the icons (Everaldo Coelho) to see if he could sign a JCA form.
Don't hesitate to keep us informaed about the evolution. For legal
issues, and external work, I'd suggest you to contact Martin Hollmichel
( mh at openoffice dot org ). I'll help you once we have more informations.
See the end of the issue I linked to at the beginning of this email
for his
icons. Again, his icons would much better serve the Mac version than the
current ones, and I hope that his become Official for the Mac port.
Thank you very much for your work, we *really* appreciate, and people
like you are warmly welcome in Mac porting project.
You perfectly match my vision of the Mac porting project: what we have
is not what Mac users expect, and instead of *talk*, just do it ;)
Now, I'll answer you more "technically"
- the Mac OS X icons are located in desktop module, in macosx dir,so
they are dedicated to Mac only at build time
=> no problem to modify the size of the icons (good idea ! )
- to match OpenOffice.org trademark, the Mac OS X icons must repsect
some "lines" in the design, and the colors
=> means the content, cannot be easely modified, and modify the
original icon contents must be hardly discussed
The result is: if we want to integrate them, we will need work and time
( bad administrative side of OpenOffice.org): they are people to
contact, document to write, provide proof of concept, QA it ... etc :
lot of work to come, and not too much people are volunteers, as you can
guess.
To save time, if your set is complete, I (or any volunteeer interested)
can try to provide experimental set including them, as proof of concept.
What do you think ?
Eric Bachard
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