+1 For the few time I spent trying to give different colors to the new icons, it was clear it was not something that could be done reasonably well in a weekend.
No need to wait 48 hours: this is lazy consensus at it's best. Pedro. --- Gio 22/12/11, Ariel Constenla-Haile ha scritto: > Hi Drew, all, > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 09:01:00PM -0500, drew wrote: > > Howdy folks, > > > > A little late - but, I did manage to put a few hours > into adding color > > to the ODF icons found on the odftoolkit site[1]. > > > > To be honest at the moment I am not satisfied with > these, though I > > wanted to put a teaser up for the moment: > > http://lo-portal.us/aoo/example-icons.png > > > > I will find another hour or two tonight and put the > actual files I'm > > working on to the wiki. > > > > However, I have to say that after doing a little of > this and looking at > > the other options the option of roling the file icons > back to the 3.0 > > set of files is making more sense. > > I think you are right. Changing only this icons will not be > enough, the > old SO icons and the MSO icons have to be changed too. > Besides, adding color to the new icons does not solve the > problem in the > file pickers (icons are too small, and adding color won't > help to > distinguish file types). > > So I'd propose to revert the icons to the old colored > ones. > It's basically reverting > http://hg.services.openoffice.org/OOO340/rev/b2b4215e6f9b > > In http://people.apache.org/~arielch/images/old-color-icons/ > you can find a patch, and a tar with the old and monochrome > icons. > There will be some work to do, because some icons are > missing, and the > patch did not change the templates/extensions icons in the > start center, > for example; so a little research is needed (and testing, > of course). > > > If none objects, we can commit these in 48 hours, and start > fixing this > (instead of reinventing the wheel and creating new ones, or > painting the > current icons). > > > Regards > -- > Ariel Constenla-Haile > La Plata, Argentina >
