Hi Drew! Am Dienstag, den 11.01.2011, 18:47 -0500 schrieb drew: > On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 00:14 +0100, Christoph Noack wrote: > > I tried to "play around" with the Base icon during the last two days [...] > > The important part to me is to stop portraying Base as a database, > because it is not - from working with hundreds or more of users with > Base those that thought of it as a database had very bad experiences > (meaning the Schema management and such) those that approached it as > what it was designed for, a form/report management tool had much better > experience. > > It would be nice for the icon to emphasis the form/report functions and > IMO get away from the idea it is a RDBMS. > > I have a very crude idea for a base icon - I'll put it to an image and > pass it along - it would only be to try and pass along my general ideas.
Oh yes, please do this ... and don't mind about the quality, it may even be a pencil sketch. It's about getting the idea :-) Of course, we will have to provide something, so that our recent OOo users feel comfortable. And - like you - I'd like to set the right expectations, since the report functionality is rather limited (if you don't have the extension). And, as I said before, at the end we also have to consider the "uniqueness" of the icon - that is (here) a bit more important than to be totally correct. MSO 2010 for example, switched back to "simple" letters (user research based change, according to MS). Looking forward ... Cheers, Christoph -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
