Re: New shapes and colors for Breeze mime-types icons
Il 19 settembre 2016 19:22:01 CEST, Marco Martin ha scritto: >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! > >-- >Marco Martin Exactly: they will improve slowly after some time of daily usage. But I think that the 5.27 realease will be very good. I just pushed 1/3 of the mimetypes/64 in git repo and I'm going to reach the 1/2 soon. If you want to try they already look good at 64px. -- Alessandro Longo
Re: New shapes and colors for Breeze mime-types icons
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! -- Marco Martin
Re: New shapes and colors for Breeze mime-types icons
Executable -- 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 -- 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 --- 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
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... -- Marco Martin
New shapes and colors for Breeze mime-types icons
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, -- Alessandro Longo [1] http://www.alexl.netsons.org/blogposts/breeze-icons-need-you-new-colors-and-shapes-for-mimetypes/