RE: [odf-adoption] Unified ODF Icons with OOo 3.2

[Hanssens Bart <Bart.Hanssens@fedict.be>]

Hi,


Well, I do find that the icons are indeed very nice-looking and, in fact,
quite clear in what file type they represent.

Personally, I'd rather stick with the built-in icons of my own environment,
instead of installing a new set of icons that perhaps don't blend in that
well with the other icons on my desktop (GNOME on Ubuntu).

It could be useful on Windows, although I'm not sure if a user would
want to have, say, an application icon for .doc, .rtf, .docx on one hand
and a specific icon for .odt on the other hand (they're all documents
that can be opened in your word processor, right ?), but marketing a
format instead of an application is of course interesting :-)


Best regards,

Bart

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From: Louis.Suarez-Potts@Sun.COM [Louis.Suarez-Potts@Sun.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 10:30 PM
To: odf-adoption
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
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> 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:
>>
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>> <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>
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