On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile <arie...@apache.org>wrote:
> Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 11:01:09PM -0400, Samer Mansour wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm proposing to have the icons (and related assets) updated for AOO > > 4.1 release. I would like to take the responsibility to see this gets > > done. > > > > Here is the icons that need to be updated: > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO4.1+-+Desktop+Icons > > > > Related asset: > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO4.1+-+Application+And+Launcher > > > > You can see two examples of ideas on the first link. You can also > > suggest your own ideas verbally by commenting on the wiki page or > > visually by attaching it to the wiki. (Please don't reply ideas in > > this mailing list, let us know if you have trouble) > > > > I am putting a deadline for the idea submission and discussion in 30 > > days, November 9th, 2013. Once we reach the deadline, we will have > > a separate discussion for optimizing for the best user experience. > > > > This is not a contest or a call for public proposals. This is regular, > > needs to be done, no-bikeshedding-please work. When the deadline Nov > > 9th arrives, if there is more than one viable solution, we will try to > > reach consensus without a end user vote. eg. We will not be doing > > what we did with the logo, that was a special case because it is the > > face of AOO. > > > > Samer Mansour > > The About dialog does not look good with the orb in the header, the old > version looked nicer than the current one > > Old version: > http://people.apache.org/~arielch/images/AboutDialog.png > > Current one, removing the orb from the header: > http://people.apache.org/~arielch/images/AboutDialog410.png > > To test different approaches, just replace about.png in the program > folder (where soffice.exe is located), for example with this one > http://people.apache.org/~arielch/images/about.png (there is no need to > restart the application). > > > Regards > -- > Ariel Constenla-Haile > La Plata, Argentina > @Ariel I see what you mean about this. Maybe too many "orbs" in the About dialog. The revised one does seem better. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." -- "Following the Equator", Mark Twain
