Hi Charles, Warren, all, Charles-H. Schulz said: > Just FYI, we now have people on the discuss list asking how the decision > was made, so can you confirm there was a new icon that was used in the > Tango category?
Hm, oh. Forgot announcing this on the design list, too, so: yes, we have a new icon for the Tango theme, as anyone who has used 3.5 beta 3+ can confirm. The decision to go forward with the new icon kind of came about on the ux-advise list. (By the way, it might help if a few more design people were there to help out developers who are unsure about how to get the user experience for new features right.) See here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-ux-advise/2012-January/000709.html . The new icon is thanks to two fantastic Gnome people, Lapo Calamandrei and Jakub Steiner, who were kind enough to relicense this icon for us. Warren Camilleri wrote: > if i may barge in and put my 2 cents, working in an environment surrounded by > simple users the floppy icon is well known as the save button, but for me its > iconic to say from where it all began to today evolution of memory, and to > play even more safe the gnome one is even more fantastic but i would ad > folder in the draw as if you are saving more records... That might work on a larger resolution, but for this level of detail the icon is probably too small. Although, if you want to have a go at adding that, the source SVG is here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/icon-themes/tango/cmd/lc_save.svg > also the floppy is somewhat and international standard, its already hard to > push for simple users to switch with their fears of understanding "change" > but it is better to make even more "familiar" for them. Right, but the Save icon is so prominent in the interface that I believe people will learn it. If there's a massive backlash against the icon, we might need to consider how we can make it better in 3.6/later in the 3.5... cycle. For 3.5.0, I'd say we'd best just leave it in. 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
