Re: [odf-adoption] Proposal: ODF Icons

[Louis Suarez-Potts <Louis.Suarez-Potts@Sun.COM>]

Hi,

On 2009-12-10, at 17:54 , robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:

> Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM wrote on 12/10/2009 05:15:25 AM:
> 
>> 
>> I think we are not talking about icons that vendors must use, but icons 
>> that vendors may use.
>> 
>> If vendors want to add their "look" or (if Bart mentioned) want to show 
>> previews instead, then they may do so. But I consider it to be 
>> reasonable to anyway provide "neutral" icons for those who want to use 
>> them. These icons further may provide the basis for all those who want 
>> to add their "look" if we provide some basic rules how to do that.
>> 
>> Additionally, there may be places where the icons must be vendor 
>> neutral. For instance, if we want to add some icons to the Wikipedia 
>> entry on ODF/OpenDocument. Or if we want to ask OASIS to configure icons 
> 
>> for IDF document into KAVI. Currently where are icons for PDF, HTML and 
>> even Microsoft Word documents, but none for ODF.
>> 
>> So, even if we know that not all vendors may adopt them, agreeing on a 
>> unified ODF icon set seems to be very reasonable to me.
>> 
> 
> OK.  That's fine.  I have no objection to making these icons available for 
> those who want to use them.  I'm just pointing out why we would not be 
> able to use them for Symphony.
> 
> What might be useful -- and maybe the project in the Toolkit Union can 
> work on this -- is to have a unified set of graphical elements that 
> promote ODF.  So not just the icons, but the complete "kit", including:
> 
> - images of various sizes for embedding in web pages, ranging from large 
> banners for headers to vertical images for sidebars, etc.
> 
> - very small icons, perhaps to be used in an icon set with CSS as 
> hyperlink cues.  For example:  
> http://www.askthecssguy.com/2006/12/showing_hyperlink_cues_with_cs_1.html
> 
> - a vector graphics (SVG maybe) for the logo for when a scalable image is 
> needed
> 
> - a B&W logo for use in B&W print material
> 
> - a specification of the main logo, including the name of the typefaces 
> used, the RDB values for the color scheme, etc.  This is useful for making 
> pages that harmonize well with the art work.
> 
> This might be a good goal, to have a complete "kit" of these images.

Agreed. We aim for things like this--complete and useful information--for users of OOo icons, for instance. The easier we make it for others to use, the better.


> 
> 
> -Rob

=louis