[snip] > >> But speaking for myself, I'd really like to see a comprehensive >> proposal, since one criticism of our current state is that we lack a >> comprehensive approach. Especially for those who are not familiar >> with this old logo dispute with Oracle, it would be good to put down, >> in one place (the wiki) a complete proposal. >> > > That said I am aware of the horrible time that the Branding Guidelines > took to be set in place, almost 6 months after working with Oracle. But is > a testimony of how intense and thorough this work most be to take to create > Visual Design, and guidelines. >
FYI this is some structure to the brand refresh by oracle, it includes a good overview of all the things that need to be modified before starting to work on a new proposal. http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Application_Rebranding_-_Project_Home_Page Creation of a Spec - Startcenter - Usability aspects - lack of color - design language - splashscreen - Icon Themes (Industrial, Crystal, etc) - mh: there some coordination with art teams of kde and gnome is desired for some of the document icons with the icon themes - Other UI Graphics - put on hold, waiting for further input - Default Styles (templates, fonts) - put on hold, wait for more input from Ivan - some relation to User Experience/Improving OOo Default Settings<http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/User_Experience/Improving_OOo_Default_Settings> - general definitions of fonts for branding is not in scope for this effort, bedipp: subteam for this, rosana: should be part of the branding guidelines -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
