2012/2/22 Bhaavan Merchant <[email protected]> > > > > > I think a good first step would be to clearly document all the icons > > > needed in LibreOffice, naming conventions and other criteria (size, > uses, > > > fileformat, etc...) Maybe the result could be a sort of icon-map table > > > (similar to a character map) for LibreOffice. Maybe this exists already > > but > > > I haven't found it yet. There's some useful info on <https://wiki.** > > > > documentfoundation.org/Design/**Whiteboards/LibreOffice_**Initial_Icons< > > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/LibreOffice_Initial_Icons > > > > > > >. > > > > > >I agree, maybe we should use a wikipage for that (Something like that > > >http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/NeededIcons< > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/NeededIcons>- Scuse > > >me I don't have time to make more today but it's a starting point) > > > > Yes, I believe this will be a good idea and we can have guidelines for > reference. > > > > > > > >The institutional and Darkish ones, as they are monochrome, can be > > >considered as One icon set to design I suppose, just changing their > colour > > >then... Maybe changing color is possible within the software (having a > > >basic icon, and software change it's color automatically ?) The colorful > > >one can stay the Tango one in my way (even if I prefer Human) > > > > >And we mustn't forget the High Contrast one > > > > > IMO, as we are an office suite, our final icon set should match an > institutional need of icons. In my opinion, dark, sober and sharp > monochrome icons qualify with this requirement. Thus, I feel, that the > icons must be of monochrome nature. > For the colour, I think Mirek proposal is great, because, using Android guidelines if I remenber, it explain cases for dark as for light Background. The first problem for me is : *How do we decide if we make a monochrome icon set or a not monochrome one ?* Wikipage for voting ?
> In terms of design, I like the icons which Google Docs ( > > http://www.ezoubi.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/new_old_look_icons_google_docs.png > ) > use, and am thinking on that lines. > Google using this seems to show it's not a too bad idea ;) > > Also the basic icons visible in the this Citrus Mockup ( > http://cdn.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/find1.png) look > clean > to me. > > Again, this is a personal view and choice may vary from person to person. > > > In terms of implementation, i believe that it would be a save of time and > effort if we begin with using an existing theme. I am not sure if we have a > tool which could apply some property (say something like a monochrome layer > over the icon) across an entire icon set, and I will do some research into > this. If we do manage to get this as a script, we could run it to create > mono-chrome versions of a few icon-themes like tango, and then see the > result and choose and modify accordingly. > Great Idea. And then making one icon set (I mean color) and including this script in the software to generate the others colors ? Should we ask on dev mailing list if this is possible / if it would need lot of CPU/memory resource > > (The script idea may be a bit naive and I am not sure of the intricacies > involved, but I am willing to work for this if I get a positive response). > > -- > Bhaavan Merchant > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
