https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153366
Galdam Jitsu <qmebic1...@gmail.com> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Resolution|--- |NOTABUG
Severity|normal |enhancement
Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED
Component|Writer |UI
--- Comment #2 from Galdam Jitsu <qmebic1...@gmail.com> ---
Thanks for giving your thoughts on the new app icons elsewise we won't really
know what the majority of the userbase thinks. About the complaints:
I do not understand what you mean by "not functional/broken". But I see that
you prefer the old logic of most icons being literal and not abstract. But the
old icons also were not totally literal; what were the base shapes supposed to
be, behind the white parts?
That shape is basically preserved in the new icons and of course that important
change is the pointy top-right triangle edge which initially symbolized arrows
"of progress" ( that's what the author of the original icons said I believe )
so I wanted to add that point edge so they do remind more of arrow beaks. Those
corner triangles existed in the previous set too, I'm not sure why you wanted
to note that now.
No Microsoft did not make those, the only major idea that ties them is the idea
that icons in the office suite should be mainly distinguishable by color. It's
a coincidence what colors are tied to each LibreOffice module/app.
I don't think I cannot design some "more usable" icons, nor these ones were
approved because of inner connections ( I really am an almost total stranger, I
only got into the mood to contribute some new icon set ).
I don't know if people will really be baffled... Do they look that different
from the previous icons?
The areas that convey information occupy almost the same space as their
co-responding old parts. The icons were made to look pixel-perfect on various
sizes ( there may be a problem on Windows10/11 on unusual system-wide scaling
options but it's a known issue )
I do not understand what you mean by "the shading effect enters too far into
the icons". And the margins are also more-or-less the same as the old ones (
they look bigger in size because the obvious white "paper" layer was removed )
The way text is represented on the Writer icon is exactly the same on how it
was represented in the old ones: with simple lines ( only evident differences
are the color and rounded edges ).
I have to admit you are kind of right about the Draw icon... but I don't want
to make the base colors darker. I don't know whether it truly affects people
with eye disabilities but I personally can distinguish the shapes from a good
distance.
I do not understand exactly what you suggest for the Math icon.
We could apply a mechanism that could generate special icons for safe-mode
sessions but we need somebody who has the knowledge and mood to do it. I don't
know if we have/can find one who wants to do it. This idea reminds me of how
GNOME deals with Stable/Nightly app icons.
The MS Windows11 calculator icon does not really help: it's a standard
calculator icon.
The rest are just about taste/preferences. Thing is many people felt fine with
not changing the icons but many others thought something new should come. So I
made these icons which in many aspects remind of the old icons, but now they
are more distinguishable from each other, there's improved visual consistency
and overall they look more conforming to the late "minimal" trends. That was
the idea in general.
The frustration of seeing new icons is really temporary but you forget it later
on ( yes I also feel like most icons I see are not "perfect" but they are just
icons in the end and most sets feel consistent and kind of trendy, that's just
what I believe ).
All I can suggest is to keep such worries around, in bugzilla, link them
together and if we conclude that a lot of people are unsatisfied perhaps new
icons could be made. But we cannot really change branding every 1-2 years. If I
noticed any significant disatisfaction with the icons earlier I would not have
proceeded with these icons. Surely many seem frustrated but many more feel fine
with them. I might want to note more stuff but nothing else comes to mind now.
By the way there is a page where icons of various other proposals are
kept:https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Mimetype_Icons/Proposals
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