Thanks. They are nice. I like what LibreOffice has done with regard to coloring the outline and background behind the corner cut/fold and providing a color image in the center of larger icons. These are more indicative than the colors alone, it seems to me.
Also, using ODF in those boxes is not exactly OOo branding. When OO.o is registered to be the application that works with .doc, .xls, .ppt, etc., what icons are used, do you know? A word of caution. I think the folded-over corner icon was claimed to be IP by Xerox Corporation at one point, although I notice that Microsoft uses it for some icons here on my Windows 7 desktop. So I'm not sure what the standing of that is. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Michael Acevedo [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 19:08 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Suggestion for OOo branding... Dennis, Use the url below to see them... https://skydrive.live.com/#!/?cid=69f0fbe8e03b2c13&sc=documents&nl=1&uc=1&id=69F0FBE8E03B2C13%211171!cid=69F0FBE8E03B2C13&id=69F0FBE8E03B2C13%211172&sc=documents Michael ________________________________ From: Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: 'Michael Acevedo' <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 6:58 PM Subject: RE: Suggestion for OOo branding... +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
