Hi all, since we want to avoid to use outdated hardware as a symbol we should exclude the icons displaying hard drives as well.
Alex ---- On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:40:19 +0100 Stefan Knorr (Astron) <heinzless...@googlemail.com> wrote ---- Hi everyone, On 31 December 2011 11:39, alexander.wilms <alexander.wi...@zoho.com> wrote: > The designers of the Linux distribution elementary OS had the same discussion some time ago and they came up with a document icon with an arrow that points to the bottom: > > http://s1.directupload.net/file/d/2755/7zq47tgh_png.htm We also have the following variations: Gnome 3 (almost Tango): http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-icon-theme/plain/gnome/256x256/actions/document-save.png (large size for toolbar: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-icon-theme/plain/gnome/24x24/actions/document-save.png ) Upstream Tango: http://web.archive.org/web/20081112055133im_/http://tango.freedesktop.org/images/2/20/Tango-feet.png (For the smaller icons, see the ~middle of the second row, for the larger icons see the icons near the end of the second row.) Ubuntu/Human (-ity) (not Tango, but designed to be about compatible): http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D1EpnOVJuA8/TPUebzxfoqI/AAAAAAAADTw/K7fm7gzEGEQ/s1600/abiword01.png (third icon). * Of the three variation, the Gnome icon is actually my favourite, because it has a bit of depth and (I think) communicates the idea of storing best. Sadly, we can't directly import it, because it's LGPL3/CC-BY-SA only. * We could import the upstream Tango icon (it's public domain), but it doesn't have much depth and the fact that the white-ish thing in there is actually a hard drive doesn't come across very well. * Ubuntu's icon does have a better rendering of the hard disk, but is LGPL only, and not a Tango icon. (Gnome 2's Tango theme had a very similar icon – green, not orange arrow, slightly different drive – but that probably had the same license as their current icon.) * Lastly, the Elementary icon is, I believe, pretty bad at communicating anything. Even its elegance can't really make up for this. I haven't researched the license, but it's probably LGPL as well..? These are opinions only, so feel free to disagree. If anyone wants to work on this, you're welcome to do so. Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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 design+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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