+1 Evidently, the renderings that have been done are not attached to the post by the list server. Is there some place where we can look at them?
- Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Wolf Halton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 14:53 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Suggestion for OOo branding... Michael, Might I suggest doing both- colour-coding and some difference between the icon symbol.. to assist those 20% of us who are colourblind to some extent. Wolf On Jul 21, 2011 5:43 PM, "Michael Acevedo" <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings to all developers of OpenOffice.org in Apache, > > I am writing to you to make a suggestion for the branding of OpenOffice.org. After Oracle bought Sun they decided to simplify document icons by changing the color coding to a unified blue color. This was a departure for the previous color coding for OOo. > > Pre-OOo 3.2.1: > * Blue Doc Icon - Writer > * Green Doc Icon - Calc > * Orange Doc Icon - Impress > * Yellow Doc Icon - Draw > * Violet Doc Icon - Base > * Blue/Gray Doc Icon - Math > Post-OOo 3.2.1 > * Blue ODF icons now represent all applications only the icon shape varies. > In my opinion although the unified version of OOo icons is nice, I think that some users might confuse the icons if they look at a minimized version of them if using the "List" view in Windows Explorer of Mac OS X Finder. > > In an effort to reduce user confusion, I would like to forward the following suggestion. Rather than redesigning the document icons, why not change the background color of the box that says "ODF" from blue to the previous color that were used for each document icons that were created by the different OOo modules. I have taken the liberty to do a rendering of the finished product for your consideration. > > Thanks to all developers for your time, and keep up the good work in OOo. > > Sincerely, > Michael Acevedo
