Hi I was looking in LIbO source and I discovered icons are "localized" : There is a font a font for franch icon (example : B for Bold is G for Gras). So it seems we can have localised icons, not using letter A but corresponding letter
2012/2/26 Mirek M. <[email protected]> > Hi Kévin, Adolfo, everyone, > > 2012/2/26 Kévin PEIGNOT <[email protected]> > > > Hi Mirek, Adolfo ... > > > > First, on the design process, it looks me great, except 1 week seems me > too > > short (sometimes people can't come one the mailing list). SO maybe two > > weeks would be better > > > > It would only be one week if nobody answers the initial e-mail. This is > just a way to get people to answer these e-mails in due time and prevent a > rough draft being stuck in limbo. > > Once an issue is raised, the time limit is dissolved. > > > > > Then, even if I think your icons are a good idea, and more logical than > > usual ones, we should keep usual symbols to avoid confusion for people > and > > beginners. I can't find free desktop recommendations for this, maybe > > someone know if they just exist ? > > > > I remember in my days as a computer noob, I had no idea about what the > "scissors" icon did. Its name "Cut" didn't give me any clues about its > functionality. Once I thought it was the "Crop" icon and was surprised when > clicking the icon took the whole image away. I then assumed it was the same > as "Delete". > > I understand that the same symbolism should be kept across all applications > -- I'm all for that. But I think that, just like the floppy disk save icon, > this is a historical remnant that should evolve. If we agree that the new > symbolism is clearer and more usable than the old one, we should push for > applications to adopt it. (The same is happening with the save icon > nowadays.) > > The new symbolism shouldn't be that foreign to users, though. The clipboard > symbol connects the three clipboard icons. Then there are those familiar > "move" and "copy" symbols that users know from file management. And a user > familiar with the old "cut" and "copy" icons, but unfamiliar with the > "Ctrl+X" and "Ctrl+C" shortcuts, can familiarize himself with the new > icons, as they appear in the Edit menu and the right-click menu with > labels, as they appear in the same place on the toolbar as the old icons, > and as tooltips appear over the toolbar icons on hover. > > > > > Kévin > > > > 2012/2/26 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos <[email protected]> > > > > > Why abandon the classic symbol paradigm? I don’t think that the > > > proposed symbols are recognizable in a glance anymore. > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Mirek M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I've put up a design process on the wiki page (@ > > > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Flat_icon_set > ). > > > > Please go take a look at it. > > > > > > > > I also submitted rough drafts for three icons: Paste, Cut, and Copy. > > > > They're unlike all Cut and Copy icons I've seen so far -- instead of > > > > showing scissors and stacks of papers, they use the same symbols as > > > moving > > > > an copying with files (an arrow and a plus icon). > > > > > > > > According to the drafted design process, the icons will be marked > > > > "approved" if nobody answers to this e-mail within a week, so please > > > > respond, comment, critique, iterate, so that we can begin to do this. > > > > > > > > Thanks. :) > > > > > > > > -- > > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > 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
