Re: [marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo (without OOo branding ATM) - volunteers?

2009-12-05 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Drew, * Drew Jensen schrieb: Juergen Schmidt wrote: > [...] the key message of the icons is to strengthen the ODF brand. > And that application independent! For ODF it is important that > people understand the openness of the format, that it is based on > a standard and that it can be used w

Re: [marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo (without OOo branding ATM) - volunteers?

2009-12-02 Thread Drew Jensen
Juergen Schmidt wrote: Lars Nooden wrote: Bernhard Dippold wrote: In my eyes these colors have a message we shouldn't give up without having thought about the positive and negative aspects of this change. Same with the product information in the icons. Many icon themes use one or two colors

Re: [marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo (without OOo branding ATM) - volunteers?

2009-11-24 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Juergen Schmidt wrote: Thorsten Behrens wrote: Martin Hollmichel wrote: again from my point of view there is no need, simply use the icons as they are. As far as i know the icons were already suggested to OASIS to become the default icon. Maybe it will change who knows but then we should use th

Re: [marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo (without OOo branding ATM) - volunteers?

2009-11-24 Thread Juergen Schmidt
Thorsten Behrens wrote: Martin Hollmichel wrote: again from my point of view there is no need, simply use the icons as they are. As far as i know the icons were already suggested to OASIS to become the default icon. Maybe it will change who knows but then we should use the new ones, important is

Re: [marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo (without OOo branding ATM) - volunteers?

2009-11-23 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Martin Hollmichel wrote: > >again from my point of view there is no need, simply use the icons > >as they are. As far as i know the icons were already suggested to > >OASIS to become the default icon. Maybe it will change who knows > >but then we should use the new ones, important is to use the > >

Re: [marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo (without OOo branding ATM) - volunteers?

2009-11-23 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, To clarify what I wrote, ODF is used by many apps. However, to address your point, Juergen, we can focus on OOo. OOo is provided by many distros. Each of those distros has at least one icon theme. Those themes have basic colors. There are usually two main colors to a theme, sometimes

Re: [marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo (without OOo branding ATM) - volunteers?

2009-11-23 Thread Juergen Schmidt
Lars Nooden wrote: Juergen Schmidt wrote: Lars Nooden wrote: Bernhard Dippold wrote: In my eyes these colors have a message we shouldn't give up without having thought about the positive and negative aspects of this change. Same with the product information in the icons. Many icon themes use

Re: [marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo (without OOo branding ATM) - volunteers?

2009-11-23 Thread Lars Nooden
Juergen Schmidt wrote: > Lars Nooden wrote: >> Bernhard Dippold wrote: >> >>> In my eyes these colors have a message we shouldn't give up without >>> having thought about the positive and negative aspects of this change. >>> Same with the product information in the icons. >> >> Many icon themes use

Re: [marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo (without OOo branding ATM) - volunteers?

2009-11-23 Thread Charles-H.Schulz
Le Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:01:28 +0100, Juergen Schmidt a écrit : > > Lars Nooden wrote: > > Bernhard Dippold wrote: > > > >> In my eyes these colors have a message we shouldn't give up without > >> having thought about the positive and negative aspects of this > >> change. Same with the product i

Re: [marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo (without OOo branding ATM) - volunteers?

2009-11-23 Thread Juergen Schmidt
Michael Meeks wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 10:01 +0100, Juergen Schmidt wrote: Lars Nooden wrote: Many icon themes use one or two colors (not counting greyscale shading). Is there a convenient way to set up a mask so that distros and versions of distros can overlay their own colors? .. I am n

Re: [marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo (without OOo branding ATM) - volunteers?

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 10:01 +0100, Juergen Schmidt wrote: > Lars Nooden wrote: > > Many icon themes use one or two colors (not counting greyscale shading). > > Is there a convenient way to set up a mask so that distros and versions > > of distros can overlay their own colors? .. > I am not sure i

Re: [marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo (without OOo branding ATM) - volunteers?

2009-11-23 Thread Juergen Schmidt
Lars Nooden wrote: Bernhard Dippold wrote: In my eyes these colors have a message we shouldn't give up without having thought about the positive and negative aspects of this change. Same with the product information in the icons. Many icon themes use one or two colors (not counting greyscale

Re: [marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo (without OOo branding ATM) - volunteers?

2009-11-22 Thread Lars Nooden
Bernhard Dippold wrote: > In my eyes these colors have a message we shouldn't give up without > having thought about the positive and negative aspects of this change. > Same with the product information in the icons. Many icon themes use one or two colors (not counting greyscale shading). Is the

Re: [marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo (without OOo branding ATM) - volunteers?

2009-11-22 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Jens, all, Jens Habermann schrieb: Hi! If the colors are not used anymore, we should think about recreating all marketing stuff using these colors ( Splash and PrOOoBox CD comes to my mind ). I am glad if I can be of any help. I'd rather see the colors still used than creating more or

Re: [marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo (without OOo branding ATM) - volunteers?

2009-11-21 Thread Jens Habermann
Hi! If the colors are not used anymore, we should think about recreating all marketing stuff using these colors ( Splash and PrOOoBox CD comes to my mind ). I am glad if I can be of any help. Regards Jens Am 21.11.2009 um 17:28 schrieb Bernhard Dippold: > Hi all, > > as you probably know, th

[marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo (without OOo branding ATM) - volunteers?

2009-11-21 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, as you probably know, the OOo document icons are going to be replaced by icons representing the document type by greyscale graphics and a blue banner with "ODF" as reference to their affiliation to the ODF family [0]. This has been done in order to improve branding on ODF. As this to