Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: New icon set

2012-02-24 Thread Shawn Thompson
I've actually got ideas for what I think would make a good lineup of icon sets in the future: 1. Something like the current Gnome icons. They recently dropped their Tango ones on 2.30 and these new ones are rather interesting. 2. Something Metro-like. This could satisfy a need for more

[libreoffice-design] Re-doing the installer

2012-02-17 Thread Shawn Thompson
I remember proposing this back when, but now I think we should re-consider it. Anyway, I'm using XAML and VB to mock up a potential redesign for the LibreOffice installer. My idea for interfacing with it would be to have a wrapper for the files (though this time, maybe a 7-Zip one more like

Re: [libreoffice-design] SmartArt into libreoffice? - sorry this time without html

2011-03-14 Thread Shawn Thompson
So, you basically want a system for creating diagram templates? On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Christopher Stark christopherst...@gmx.dewrote: Hi, I'm not working with M$ Office but I heard from my flatmate that the so called smart art is supposed to be very helpful. They look like that:

Re: [libreoffice-design] Installer changes for Windows users

2011-03-11 Thread Shawn Thompson
On the topic of this, I had actually proposed an entire redesign of the installer system in a much earlier post, but in discussions on IRC I was informed that making alternate UI's for Windows Installer systems is a pretty difficult task. ~Shawn On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Cesare Leonardi

Re: [libreoffice-design] Logo proposal without TDF line

2011-02-04 Thread Shawn Thompson
Okay, sorry if this reiterates anything we've said, but If anything, I would purely just drop it from the logo entirely. If a mentioning of TDF is required in artwork (like the splash screen), it could easily be thrown in the corner or something. I feel TDF needs to be branded as the people/vendor

[libreoffice-design] Proposal: Redesign the Windows installer

2011-01-23 Thread Shawn Thompson
Okay, this might be tricky given the fact that we use Windows Installer (MSI and such), but I kinda find the LibreOffice installer to be a little plain looking, and given that it seems like we're trying to distance ourselves from the look of that other free office suite, I think it could use a new