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Subject: Re: [odf-adoption] Unified ODF Icons with OOo 3.2
Hi On 2009-09-18, at 11:07 , Mary McRae wrote: > Hi Louis, > > Would it not make more sense to have each of the icons state the > type of document? I honestly don't know what application the stack > of coins or the epsilon represent. Well, this is the nature of icons that approach rebuses, that they can be mystifying, if only at first. What do others think? > > Mary -louis > > > > > > > On Sep 18, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Following a discussion held last spring, in the 09 March 2009 OpenOffice.org >> Engineering Steering Committee (ESC) [0], we at OpenOffice.org are >> introducing a unified set document icons meant to promote the >> OpenDocument Format (ODF) clearly and memorably, and without regard >> to vendor or product identity. >> >> The argument in the March ESC meeting was for an icon set that >> raised the awareness of ODF as a format that works across all >> platforms and implementations. The icons do not promote a vendor's >> brand but the format's identity--a point that we've long debated >> here and, if memory serves me right, long wanted. >> >> These icons will be used in OOo 3.2 as well as in the next release >> of StarOffice. But they are not specific to those products nor >> limited to them. Rather, they are free to be used by all other >> implementations, as they are not vendor specific and do not make >> any claim about vendor identity. We also recognize that they are a >> work in progress, open and free of encumbrances, and so I am asking >> the TC members here (and in other relevant OASIS TCs) to examine >> them, discuss them, work on them, and if needed, improve them. >> These icons are meant to promote the ODF, not a vendor's product. >> They are thus in keeping with our stated goal here. >> >> Because the icons are not particular to any implementation but >> general to all, they can be found at the ODF Toolkit Union [1], and >> discussions related to the icons, as well as work, can reasonably >> be held there. Of course, discussions related to them can be held >> here, too. >> >> As well, I'm attaching a picture of them here: >> >> >> >> <PastedGraphic-1.tiff> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Louis >> >> >> >> [0] <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ESC_meeting_minutes_20090309#proposal_for_unified_ODF_Document_icons >> > >> >> [1] <http://odftoolkit.org/projects/odftoolkit/pages/ODF-Icons> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that >> generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: >> https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/ >> my_workgroups.php >
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