Re: [ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 17:11 -0800, Merk wrote: The Ubuntu Title Font is available on sites like dafont.com http://www.dafont.com/ubuntu-title.font There are 2 and this is the better one: http://betatype.com/node/36 -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software:

Re: [ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread Bruno Girin
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 16:24 -0800, Chris Tooley wrote: [snip] You should also consider whether this implies microsoft word to your average user. I would go one step further: does this imply word processing document to the average user and does it tell him how it will be handled when they

Re: [ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread Joeri Jungschlager
It has too do with the law, Apple is much more of a social company then Microsoft. Think apple putted on a flexible license. (like CC/GPL/APSL) I think the last one is apple used. Microsoft I pretty sure they not. On 16 February 2010 20:39, Merk merkin...@hotmail.com wrote: So I see a lot of

Re: [ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread Merk
I'm not asking why the OS X was directly copied instead of either Windows one. I'm asking why any existing Word icon was copied at all. Joeri Jungschlager wrote: It has too do with the law, Apple is much more of a social company then Microsoft. Think apple putted on a flexible license.

Re: [ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 07:38:23 am Merk wrote: I'm not asking why the OS X was directly copied instead of either Windows one. I'm asking why any existing Word icon was copied at all. It is a mimetype and as such needs to visually represent a certain type of file. It goes without saying

Re: [ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread François Degrave
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 07:38:23 am Merk wrote: I'm not asking why the OS X was directly copied instead of either Windows one. I'm asking why any existing Word icon was copied at all. It is a mimetype and as such needs to visually represent a certain type of file. It goes

Re: [ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread Merk
MAC USERS may expect that exact icon, not Windows users. Since we can't satisfy both exactly, we should satisfy both roughly. By that I mean the 'visual metaphor' should be Blue W for Word, Green X for Excel, etc. Not Stylized and gel-like font in perspective only present in the Mac version

Re: [ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread Merk
I made another using the upper case of that font. http://old.nabble.com/file/p27626085/humanity-msword2.svg humanity-msword2.svg Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 17:11 -0800, Merk wrote: The Ubuntu Title Font is available on sites like dafont.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:04 +0100, François Degrave wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 07:38:23 am Merk wrote: I'm not asking why the OS X was directly copied instead of either Windows one. I'm asking why any existing Word icon was copied at all. It is a mimetype and as such

Re: [ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread François Degrave
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:04 +0100, François Degrave wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 07:38:23 am Merk wrote: I'm not asking why the OS X was directly copied instead of either Windows one. I'm asking why any existing Word icon was copied at all. It is a mimetype and

Re: [ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:18 +0100, François Degrave wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:04 +0100, François Degrave wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 07:38:23 am Merk wrote: I'm not asking why the OS X was directly copied instead of either Windows one. I'm asking why any existing Word

Re: [ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:44 +0100, François Degrave wrote: Vishnoo a écrit : On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:18 +0100, François Degrave wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:04 +0100, François Degrave wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 07:38:23 am Merk wrote: I'm not

[ubuntu-art] Re : .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread François Degrave
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:44 +0100, François Degrave wrote: Vishnoo a écrit : On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:18 +0100, François Degrave wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:04 +0100, François Degrave wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 07:38:23 am Merk wrote: I'm not

[ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread François Degrave
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:44 +0100, François Degrave wrote: Vishnoo a écrit : On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:18 +0100, François Degrave wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:04 +0100, François Degrave wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 07:38:23 am Merk wrote: I'm not

Re: [ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 05:04:46 pm Merk wrote: MAC USERS may expect that exact icon, not Windows users. Since we can't satisfy both exactly, we should satisfy both roughly. By that I mean the 'visual metaphor' should be Blue W for Word, Green X for Excel, etc. Not Stylized and

Re: [ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 06:17:12 pm Vishnoo wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:44 +0100, François Degrave wrote: Vishnoo a écrit : On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:18 +0100, François Degrave wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:04 +0100, François Degrave wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re : .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread Chris Tooley
The problem is the same for the psd file icon (attached): why putting a Photoshop logo? The user only has to know it is an image, with the psd extension. The photoshop logo is a nonsense here. I was under the impression that a PSD file was a PhotoShop Document. Is this not a proprietary