Re: [art] ODF icon design
2009/11/29 Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at Hi all, Hi Bernhard, You might also want to consider the ODF roundel used by Apache httpd and several other programs: http://opendocumentfellowship.com/icons http://www.catnip.co.uk/opendocument/icons/ Thanks! -- Peter Harlow Catnip Controls - Manage the world from your Web Browser http://www.catnip.co.uk/controls/
Re: [art] New OOo Mimetype icons
Hi All, At the Open Document Fellowship we tried a similar exercise years ago, and IIRC did try and engage the OOo art team. The icons are used by a handful of apps such as the Apache httpd, but were generally overlooked in the Sun and corporate parts of the ODF landscape. http://www.catnip.co.uk/opendocument/icons/ Regards, Pete. 2009/9/21 Ivan M i2initiati...@gmail.com Hi Art project members, Please see Bernhard's email below to the UX list about the new proposed OOo mimetype icons. I have to say that I'm dissappointed that no one involved with these icons made an attempt to engage with the art list about this. Regards, Ivan. -- Forwarded message -- From: Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at Date: Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:45 AM Subject: [ux-discuss] Change in OOo mimetype icons - known and supported by the UX project? To: disc...@ux.openoffice.org Hi all, as I'm not a regular customer of GULLFOSS, I needed someone else (thanks, Volker) to point me to that blog http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/unified_odf_icons where Lutz Hoeger writes about the change in mimetype icons probably already decided (by whom?) for OOo 3.2. The application colors will be given up and replaced by grey icons symbolizing the different applications by symbols. A blue rectangle with white ODF will be added to every icon. The main reason for this change is to enforce public recognition of ODF among different applications. My problem from UX side: - Is it reasonable to reduce the differences between all the different ODF supporting programs? Every program uses different algorithms, so the files will open a bit differently in each of them. And depending of the features of each program, the user will be or not be able to modify the file to more or less extent. - Will the new icons be different enough from each other to help the user to open file he wants to? In Windows I prefer the detail view in Explorer with 16x16px icons for documents.(I don't know studies about the relative usage of the different explorer views, if there are any...) In this size the color of the icons are more important than their (very small) symbols. Changing every color to grey reduces visual difference among the file types. - My third point (not only related to UX): Why should we reduce the strength of our (OpenOffice.org) visual design and recognition in favor of ODF? Every application changes the mimetype icons of the files it opens as standard application. I want to know if a HTML file opens in IE, Firefox, Opera or any other application when I open the file. More details if necessary, but I think you get my point. Best regards Bernhard - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@ux.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@ux.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: art-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: art-h...@marketing.openoffice.org -- Peter Harlow Catnip Controls - Manage the world from your Web Browser http://www.catnip.co.uk/controls/
Re: [art] OOo Start Center Mockup
2008/5/31 Ivan M [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi everyone, I've been playing with the new start center, and have created a mockup using the same design elements as my most recent splash screen designs, with a light ray effect added in. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Image:Startcenter_mockup1.png It's a fair bit more busy than the current beta version start center (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Image:Startcenter_beta.png), with provisions for a recent documents list and an update notifier (?). Please let me know what you think. Hi, Ivan, I recently filed a bug http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=89119 requesting that the text adjacent to icons in the Start Centre be clickable as well as the icons themselves. I don't know if this impacts the design of artwork at all, but thought it would be as well to mention it. Regards, -- Pete Harlow Catnip Corner - Photography by Pete Harlow - http://www.catnip.co.uk/ http://www.catnip.co.uk/wallpaper/ The Internet is the thief of time. Please use ODF Open Document Format (.odt - .ods - .odp - .odg) to send me documents
Re: [art] Another Icon Design
On 03/04/2008, Paul @ Dead End Cafe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ivan, You make a good point. Though I am quite happy with how my new set looks, you're right about the style - I hadn't really considered it, (this stuff is more an excercise in design for me than anything else) but OO.o should have a clear identity of it's own. I'm also agreed with you in regards to the Ubuntu/Tango icons, they're very professional looking work. I'm not quite so sold on the application icons, but I really love the document icons. The only thing that they lack in my view is colour. More and more these days I'm seeing colour used to match applications with their document files, to great effect. Adobe does it (with their CS3 apps), Microsoft does it (with their Office icons) and I feel like OpenOffice could benefit from the kind of 'brand familiarity' that this colour matching builds in users. Anyhow, just my thoughts :) Thanks for the feedback! With the recent approval of OOXML as an ISO standard the *truly* open file format ODF needs all the recognition it can get. It would be nice, therefore, if the ODF monogram http://www.catnip.co.uk/opendocument/icons/svgmaster/odf_master.svg could be worked into icon designs somehow. This monogram is now used by several applications including the Apache http server default file type icons on *buntu and Debian systems. I produced some examples of generic icons on http://www.catnip.co.uk/opendocument/icons/ although I don't have the level of skill of some of the people on this list! Regards, -- Pete Harlow Catnip Corner - Photography by Pete Harlow - http://www.catnip.co.uk/ http://www.catnip.co.uk/wallpaper/ La couleur est l'enthousiasme de la vie. (Vincent Van Gogh) Please use ISO 26300 format (.odt - .ods - .odp - .odg) to send me documents
Re: [art] [Style OOo3] Colors and icons: go Tango?
Hello, As a discussion point, I recently produced some file mimetype icons using the OpenDocument monogram and the Tango theme. http://www.catnip.co.uk/opendocument/icons/#tango I hope these are of interest. Regards, Pete. On 06/12/06, Bernhard Dippold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gabriel, * Gabriel Hurley schrieb: Recently, an Ubuntu user posted a bug report at the Ubunut bug report website. Please see it here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/42061 As you can see, it is very important for the version 3.0 to use the GTK Icon Theme lookup. This will allow for better integration and flexibility. There is something quite wrong if I can more easily get Koffice to integrate into GNOME that OpenOffice. I realise that not all icons required for OpenOffice will be found in the GTK Icon Themes. Therefore, I propose that the rest of the icons in OpenOffice be Tango-based, as it seems to be the direction in which the default GNOME theme is progressing. As nobody posted any opposite opinion I think we should try to fit our icon's colors with the Tango color scheme. What we should think of, is, that there are only three blue tones in the Tango scheme, so (if we want to keep a blue tone for Math) Writer should get the dark blue and Math the light blue tone. Our OOo blue is not included in the color scheme (and I don't think that there is a change to get it included ...), but this only means, that it should not be used in the icons - it isn't used in the present icons either. But to show you how it fits to the color scheme, I created a image containing these four colors: http://familie-dippold.de/OpenOffice.org/tango_blue_tones.png Of course it is not necessary to combine OOo Blue with the darker Tango tone, but for marketing materials and artwork the colors are a basis to be worked on, IMHO. Best regards Bernhard - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Pete Harlow Catnip Corner - Photography by Pete Harlow - http://www.catnip.co.uk/ OpenDocument Icons - http://www.catnip.co.uk/opendocument/icons/ OpenDocument Fellowship - http://opendocumentfellowship.org/ Play Ogg Vorbis on your iPod - http://www.rockbox.org/
