Hi Nicholas, I am taking the liberty to add the design list into CC here...
Astron. On 27 August 2012 16:58, Nicholas Shanks <nicksha...@nickshanks.com> wrote: > Since I am unable to compile LO, I figured I would work on the artwork a bit. > I noticed that the Windows .ico files included a 256px icon, and that > there were 256px icons in PNG form in the tree, yet the Mac icons were > only provided up to 128px in size. > So I have created revised versions of the > sysui/desktop/icons/oasis-*.icns files, derived directly from the PNG > files. > > The Mac icon format also supports 512x512 and 1024x1024 sized icons, > so I have generated PNGs for these sizes and included them in the icns > files. (512px is used for the iTunes‐like carousel view called Cover > Flow, and 1024 is used for the same on high pixel density displays.) > These additional sizes add 2MB to the Mac distribution over the icns > files with just 256 added (not attached), which itself adds very > little due to better compression than the files currently in the tree. > The LO Mac distribution is already 640 MB so I figured another two to > make it look spiffy wouldn't hurt. If anyone objects though I can > re‐send with just 256 or just 512 included. > If you extract the attached tape archive into the sysui/desktop/ > directory everything should be placed in the correct location. > > I have NOT created equivalents for the OOo 1.0 and Microsoft file > formats because I think LO is wrong to use identical icons for them. I > will prepare new icons for all platforms which have the LibreOffice > document branding (detached upper right corner and tinted thick > border) but with elements that allow users to identify the file format > too, so that a user can see directly from the icon that "oh, this is a > Microsoft Word document, but double‐clicking it will open the file in > LibreOffice". > > I also intend to create a new extension icon, the predominant shape of > which will be like the current one, but rotated 90° clockwise and with > the upper right corner detached, and a thick grey border and plain > white interior (no green plus). I will try to make it suck less in > appearance too, using main.svg as a starting point. > > I also have some ideas for the main application icon (which currently > looks like a blank document, not an application). I think taking the > brown, yellow, green, blue and purple triangles used to identify the > main document types and arranging them radially in a circle 60° apart > from one another would look good. This motif would then be placed in a > square, rather than a rectangle, and adhere to platform conventions > for the appearance of applications, e.g. 0° for Windows, 30° for Mac & > Gnome, 45° for BeOS etc. Sound good? > > -- > Nicholas. > > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > libreoff...@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice > -- 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