The breeze icons are calmer, and they are clearer in a few cases: for example, New (where elementary squanders 🗋 recognisability in redundantly conveying what kind of file will be created), Cut (where elementary’s puffy scissors look to me like a rabbit using binoculars), and, though it pains me to say it, Save (where a floppy disk might be a relic, but elementary’s arrow-on-a-rectangle is just mysterious). And breeze uses a “+” emblem more consistently, for the various Insert commands, than elementary does.
In other cases, the elementary icons are much clearer: for example, Save as PDF (I have no idea what breeze is trying to do there), Paste (where breeze’s icon would work equally well for Copy!), Rows, and Columns. (I don’t understand why breeze uses any diagonal lines in the last two.) Overall, though, I agree with Will. Unfortunately, the massive number of buttons LibreOffice displays at once — and the resulting tinyness of each icon — makes it impractical for them to use colour as little as the Breeze theme does. (This is the crucial difference with Frederik’s comparison of a Nautilus sidebar that has only 13 items in it.) The LibreOffice buttons are so numerous, and so tiny, that hardly anyone will think, for example, “I want to insert a picture — oh, look, the seventeenth button along looks a bit like a landscape picture, maybe that’s what I want”. Instead, if they use the toolbar button at all, they’ll use it after having read its tooltip, or after instruction from someone else. And whether or not they find it themselves, it’s much easier to be told, to remember, and to find it quickly later if, “Insert Picture is the blue and orange wavy block” rather than having to rely solely on shape, “Insert Picture is the one with a zig-zaggy triangle and a little circle above it”. > Personally I prefer Colibre as I find it to be the most professional Well, professional is not a word I’d choose — I don’t see any consistency in its use of outlined vs. non-outlined shapes, sometimes even in the same icon. But Colibre does use colour about as much as I think a theme for this many buttons needs to. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1827948 Title: Use libreoffice-style-breeze as the default icon theme To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1827948/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
