Re: [libreoffice-design] Revising the icon design process

2012-02-29 Thread Kévin PEIGNOT
Hi Mirek

I agree thi sa good design process that must be tried. Then about the
choice of align left / center / right, I'm not sure. We should begin with
icons for the read only application (as LibreOffice for Android will begin
as a simple reader before extending its functions), so icons like save,
maybe export as PDF, send by e-mail... For next week maybe ?

Kevin

2012/2/29 Mirek M. maz...@gmail.com

 Hi everyone,
 I'd like to rethink the whole icon design process. Based on the last few
 days, I feel that a lot of icon proposals were drafted cursorily, without
 really giving thought to their function, to our current icons, to relevant
 art from other applications, or to Android icons. I also feel like our
 discussions could be more productive, delving deeper to find and fix the
 smallest issues.
 So I'm proposing an entirely new design process, focused on a single topic
 each week. This week's topic are *Align left*, *Align right*, and *Align
 center *icons, which should be relatively easy to design. The deadline for
 submitting drafts is this Saturday (wherever you happen to be, don't worry
 about the time zone). You're also welcome to add links to images of prior
 art if a certain alignment icon caught your eye. (All the submitted icon
 drafts so far are still up on the wiki and we'll bring them up again.)
 We'll then analyze the rough drafts and work on the final icons.

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Re: [libreoffice-design] Revising the icon design process

2012-02-29 Thread Mirek M.
Hi Kévin,

2012/2/29 Kévin PEIGNOT peignot.ke...@kpeignot.fr

 Hi Mirek

 I agree thi sa good design process that must be tried. Then about the
 choice of align left / center / right, I'm not sure. We should begin with
 icons for the read only application (as LibreOffice for Android will begin
 as a simple reader before extending its functions), so icons like save,
 maybe export as PDF, send by e-mail... For next week maybe ?


The feature set of the Android port is not set in stone yet. I don't think
work has even started on the UI layer. Save wouldn't really make sense
for a read-only app. Instead of Send by e-mail, LibreOffice should use
Android's Share button. There'll also be a file browser, the feature set of
which is also unclear.

I'm not sure how the Android LibO will deal with filetypes. Since there's
no visible central file management in Android -- all apps manage their own
files -- it'd be ideal if all files were stored as ODF files within Mobile
LibO and filetypes (Office, PDF, ...) were offered only when sharing
documents.

In any case, I chose to go with align icons as they're easy to design,
ideal for testing the new design process, and they're key functionality
that is going to end up in Mobile LibO once it gains basic text editing
features. I deliberately avoided choosing a topic for which Android already
bundles an icon (like Search or Share), since we're free to bundle this
icon under the proper license (MIT).

Once Android developers give word about the UI/features planned for the
initial version of their LibO port, I'll propose the topics accordingly.
For now, though, it's just a guessing game.


 Kevin

 2012/2/29 Mirek M. maz...@gmail.com

  Hi everyone,
  I'd like to rethink the whole icon design process. Based on the last few
  days, I feel that a lot of icon proposals were drafted cursorily, without
  really giving thought to their function, to our current icons, to
 relevant
  art from other applications, or to Android icons. I also feel like our
  discussions could be more productive, delving deeper to find and fix the
  smallest issues.
  So I'm proposing an entirely new design process, focused on a single
 topic
  each week. This week's topic are *Align left*, *Align right*, and *Align
  center *icons, which should be relatively easy to design. The deadline
 for
  submitting drafts is this Saturday (wherever you happen to be, don't
 worry
  about the time zone). You're also welcome to add links to images of prior
  art if a certain alignment icon caught your eye. (All the submitted icon
  drafts so far are still up on the wiki and we'll bring them up again.)
  We'll then analyze the rough drafts and work on the final icons.
 
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