I've actually got ideas for what I think would make a good lineup of icon sets in the future:
1. Something like the current Gnome icons. They recently dropped their Tango ones on 2.30 and these new ones are rather interesting. 2. Something Metro-like. This could satisfy a need for more "plain/monochrome" icons for high/low contrast users, may also fit in well on the Android version too, and give us a good "native" look for Windows 8 users 3. Something bright and colorful for Windows XP/KDE/etc. On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Kévin PEIGNOT <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mirek, great to read you. Hi all(again) > 2012/2/22 Mirek M. <[email protected]> > >> Hi everyone, >> If we are to make an icon set, I would prefer it to be designed from >> scratch. I don't think we can achieve good quality by transforming the >> Tango icon set or the High Contrast Galaxy set (frankly, it's much harder >> for me to decipher the icons from the HC than the standard icon set). >> > I tried from high contrast (see my last mail), I think we could achieve > good quality. But, for sure, not the best one for most of the icons. > >> >> I was thinking we could begin with a simple icon set for Android. We'd >> probably need to make this set anyway, as LibO would look really >> out-of-place on Android if it shipped with Tango icons. And the initial >> plans for the Android port are to make a high-fidelity document viewer, so >> we won't have to make many icons initially. As the Android port develops, >> the icon set would grow, and when it grew big enough, it would be suitable >> for the desktop version. >> > I am totally in. Anyway, we will have to design a monochrom icon set. So > it's good making android viewer one first, and to see, then, whether it can > adapt to desktop, because it follow TDF plans and it permit a first > feedback on the icons. > >> >> As for active vs. disabled icons, Android has >> guidelines<http://developer.android.com/design/style/iconography.html>for >> this: 30% opacity for disabled icons, light or dark. >> >> To truly achieve good quality, though, we need someone experienced to >> coordinate the project. Nobody's raised their hand so far -- perhaps we >> should ask some prominent open-source icon designers ourselves or raise >> money on KickStarter if nobody was willing to help with this for free. >> > Do someone know one of them ? Steva ? (from Sun) ? I'm in for the > kickstarter project, for sure, but I hope we could make without it. > >> >> P.S. Also take a look at Adobe Buzzword's icons: >> >> http://www.writerstechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/buzzword-screenshot.png >> Quite >> beautiful. >> >> -- >> 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 > -- 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
