Use of Galaxy Icons for the website

[:murb: [maarten brouwers]]

Hi Ivan, André, Stella, and all others,

Context of this e-mail: The new website redesign. While we decided that it
should be a minimalistic design, we agreed upon including icons as well.
See for the latest version of the design:
http://patentpending.co.nz/openoffice/#

Recently, André suggested to use the Galaxy icons. Which I believe are
indeed very nice icons, and the more interesting to use in our publication
since they (but about this I'm not that certain), will become the default
iconset for OOo 3(?)

André wrote (at dev@...):
>>  I'm still pledging to go with the Galaxy style.
>
> The galaxy icons are great! Is there an icon set that can be
> downloaded? All I could find is this:
> http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/gifs/Icons/example_galaxy_icons.png
> None of the icons in that image are really related to our action
> statements, but if there are more icons, and they are suitable to be
> paired with the action statements, their colors and clean design would
> work really well with the current design.

I was wondering if anyone could supply us with a little bit more
information on the use of the Galaxy icons. I like them quite so, though
there are also other icon sets I like... and would love to see this icon
set in place of the current default Win95 icon set before yesterday; the
sooner the better.

Since I am a big proponent of unifying design for OOo in general, yes that
implies reducing the freedom of independent artists, I would definitely
support the move to Galaxy icons for the homepage (if this is to become
the default iconset of OOo3 (but 2.4 would be even better ;) ), if not the
entire website.

g.,


Maarten

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[Stella Schulze]

Hi Maarten,

first of all I like to say for doing a redesign of OpenOffice.org. It's
looks so much better! ;-)
Keep it up!

And I like the idea to use the same icons (Galaxy) for the Office and
website, too.
We do same for the extensions site: ->
http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_ExtensionsSite.html#images

Unfortunately, the new icon set is not complete today. But it will be
soon...

Best regards,
Stella

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:murb: [maarten brouwers] schrieb:

> Hi Ivan, André, Stella, and all others,
>
> Context of this e-mail: The new website redesign. While we decided that it
> should be a minimalistic design, we agreed upon including icons as well.
> See for the latest version of the design:
> http://patentpending.co.nz/openoffice/#
>
> Recently, André suggested to use the Galaxy icons. Which I believe are
> indeed very nice icons, and the more interesting to use in our publication
> since they (but about this I'm not that certain), will become the default
> iconset for OOo 3(?)
>
> André wrote (at dev@...):
>  
>>>  I'm still pledging to go with the Galaxy style.
>>>      
>> The galaxy icons are great! Is there an icon set that can be
>> downloaded? All I could find is this:
>> http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/gifs/Icons/example_galaxy_icons.png
>> None of the icons in that image are really related to our action
>> statements, but if there are more icons, and they are suitable to be
>> paired with the action statements, their colors and clean design would
>> work really well with the current design.
>>    
>
> I was wondering if anyone could supply us with a little bit more
> information on the use of the Galaxy icons. I like them quite so, though
> there are also other icon sets I like... and would love to see this icon
> set in place of the current default Win95 icon set before yesterday; the
> sooner the better.
>
> Since I am a big proponent of unifying design for OOo in general, yes that
> implies reducing the freedom of independent artists, I would definitely
> support the move to Galaxy icons for the homepage (if this is to become
> the default iconset of OOo3 (but 2.4 would be even better ;) ), if not the
> entire website.
>
> g.,
>
>
> Maarten
>  

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[:murb: [maarten brouwers]]

Hi Stella,

> first of all I like to say for doing a redesign of OpenOffice.org. It's
> looks so much better! ;-)
> Keep it up!

Thanks, although I'm kind of trying to coordinate everything, most credits
should go to Ivan.

> And I like the idea to use the same icons (Galaxy) for the Office and
> website, too.
> We do same for the extensions site: ->
> http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_ExtensionsSite.html#images
> Unfortunately, the new icon set is not complete today. But it will be
> soon...

Good to see work is going on, however, originally the plan was to have the
website online already by now. Louis is pushing hard as well to get it
done.

We only need 5 icons, maybe you have 'these'* finished already:
http://www.patentpending.co.nz/images/openoffice/siteconcept-actionicons.png

(* they do not have to be similar to these, this is just a rough proposal,
e.g. the extension logo should be, if we want to go for a more unified
style be like the one used at the extension website (the puzzle piece with
the plus sign )

Would you be able to give us a date when you think you could have all five
icons ready? Otherwise we will go with temporary icons for now, and
replace them later.

g.,


Maarten


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