Hi Christoph, all, On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Christoph Noack <christ...@dogmatux.com> wrote: > Hi all! > > Am Sonntag, den 09.01.2011, 00:26 +0100 schrieb Bernhard Dippold: >> (who starts working on the Draw document icon) >> >> If anybody else would try his/her skills on the Master Doc (just put >> the >> symbols of four Writer icons or the full icons together on the main >> application icon), this would already help a lot! > > I missed that, so there is plenty of opportunity to others ... the > Master Doc is also pretty important, I think. > > I tried to "play around" with the Base icon during the last two days, > but it is pretty difficult. I fell back to the original "stack" idea, > since it is rather hard to include all the database relations and the > objects and keeping a unique and easy-to-identify look. > > However, here is the intermediate result ... the templates (are there > any, didn't check ... no, seems not), and the High Contrast versions are > missing. But, I added the original "colorful" version, and the Nik based > "colorless" style. Personally, I prefer the latter ... otherwise Base > reminds me of (delicious) candy. > > Now, I'm curious how you perceive the "background" idea for the 128px > icon. I've added it to get a more or less harmonic style ... considering > Writer and Calc. Unfortunately, the icons start to differ given their > level of detail (per size).
Before I get into feedback mode, I want to say thank you for continuing to work on these icons - it's great to see the progress! Now, let's switch to feedback mode: I'm not sure that the binary background works well as a metaphor. Of course, everything on computers is, in the end, binary, but AFAIK, Base involves no more or less binary than Writer, Calc, Draw ... at least, I hope it's a program people can use without touching binary! Maybe some SQL code could be used instead (CREATE TABLE ... SELECT * FROM....)? I also think the 128x128 version adds some unnecessary complexity by making space between the stacked cylinders... maybe add a fourth one instead? To really nitpick, I wonder if the 48x48 icon couldn't have a slightly thicker border for the stack as it looks very thin against the thick outer border of the icon. As for the colors, I wonder if we couldn't find a compromise between colorless and colorful icons by changing the color of the inner border (which is gray in the colorless version). What I mean is: having a gray or white inner border like the colorless icon coupled with the colored gradient fill of the colorful icon? What do you think? Regards, Ivan. -- 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 ***
