Re: New shapes and colors for Breeze mime-types icons

2016-09-19 Thread Marco Martin 
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:56 AM, kainz.a  wrote:
> Different shapes = different contend
> Different colors = different file types

I find the reasoning convincing.
Maybe will still need some fixes after being widely tested in the
flesh, but looking forward to see it live!

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Marco Martin

Re: New shapes and colors for Breeze mime-types icons

2016-09-19 Thread kainz.a 
Executable
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In general I think it's a good idea to have a gear shape for .exe, ...
files, but I have to have a look if it look good as it is now with the big
gear.

MS Office
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the ms logos will be removed cause we don't want to ship app specific
mimetypes (exclude .deb, .exe, ... files). Also we respect trademarks

Different shapes = different contend

shapes should help the user to know what is the file content. therefore we
have different shapes for
- audio
- video
- images (pixel graphic)
- archiv
- disk images (vbox disk)

the idea is not to define for each file type a different shape. only this
view different content sections get a special shape. If it's no file from
one of the section the default shape was used.

Different colors = different file types
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all audio files have the same shape and most of them has the same central
logo to separate different file types colors were used. In some areas like
images also the central logo is different.

The different colors were reviewed cause now we had a lot of e.g. green
mimetypes. app specific mimetypes like ms-word should get the color from
the app file for a better recognization.

So in the end the update is visible but with the same design language as
before.

Re: New shapes and colors for Breeze mime-types icons

2016-09-19 Thread Marco Martin 
On Sunday 18 September 2016, Alessandro Longo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> as written here[1] on KDE Planet I want to know thoughts on new colors
> and shapes for Breeze mime-types icons, specially from people involved
> in Plasma, since it's the main product that uses them.
> 
> Please reply to visual-des...@kde.org if you are subscribed there.

quick feedback:
executable: it's not really a "document you can open", so it's probably the 
one icon where it makes more sense to have a distinct shape like the gear

ms office:
indeed, trademarked logos should be avoided as much as possible, i would 
object putting their official logos in our repo for clear legal reasons.

I'm fine with the colors, tough i guess i'll have to see it in real life to 
see if it doesn't look too much "noisy" when a large number of files is 
visualized. similar concern for having a lot of icons with different shapes 
(like images, archives and videos) is true that helps to make a type more 
recognizable, but could also make a view look more messy...

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Marco Martin

New shapes and colors for Breeze mime-types icons

2016-09-18 Thread Alessandro Longo 

Hi all,

as written here[1] on KDE Planet I want to know thoughts on new colors 
and shapes for Breeze mime-types icons, specially from people involved 
in Plasma, since it's the main product that uses them.


Please reply to visual-des...@kde.org if you are subscribed there.

Cheers,

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Alessandro Longo

[1] 
http://www.alexl.netsons.org/blogposts/breeze-icons-need-you-new-colors-and-shapes-for-mimetypes/