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 of Office" Kenneth Wimer-5 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 needs to visually represent a certain type of > file. It goes without saying that when everyone associates a certain > look/letter/number with something they don't search for other visual > metaphors. People expect certain things to look certain ways ;) > > -- > Ken > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/.doc%2C-.xls%2C-etc-icons-in-Humanity-Update-tp27613841p27626070.html Sent from the ubuntu-art mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
