Today the great Marco Committed air into svn. Let me just tell you a bit about air, air is a direct descendant of the air wallpaper, I made the first sketch of it the same day I made the wallpaper, and it tries to make the people that found the Oxygen theme "to black" happy. There is no one fits all design, and hopefully with air we can make a wider spectrum of people love KDE. ( in the future I think we can still make a couple more themes) Its still we hope coherent, there are a lot of small details that are shared with oxygen both qt theme as plasma theme. That gives it a feeling of belonging as part of the same experience. We introduced a brand new element in plasma theming, a cropped background the is placed on the plasmoid canvas, (you will see this in the future taken to new heights as it opens a fantasist new set of opportunities to designers). Its transparent, people love transparent stuff :) (we did some effort to avoid contrast issues, but with certain wallp...
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Though I love everything Oxygen-related.. soooo is this the anxiety for new stuff or something else? Still I like it =)
Quite impressive, as always!
Keep up the good, inspiring, hard work!
Nassos
1) Drawing
2) Blank document (?)
3) Chart (?)
4) Database
5) Presentation
6) Text
7) Formula
8) ?
9) ?
One idea; Could the OpenDocument Text icon maybe have a pencil? I think it would make it more clear, as it is now it has a bit of a "unknown" feel to it.
Great work!
Regards,
Aron Stansvik
Some thought : I quite agree with Aron Stansvik, that not all icons are easily recognized. This is what I found at the first glance (from left to right) :
1) Text (it does represent a pencil ??)
2) Blank document (?)
3) Chart (?)
4) Database
5) Presentation
6) ?
7) Formula
8) ?
9) ?
Is there an icon for master documents ? The spreadsheet one is not so obvious.
you managed to get them al :)
1 circle thing is the odf logo (i thought of using it has a kinda stamp)
2 yes the second one is the blank document (mostly a work basis)
3 yes the number 3 is a chart (maybe i need to make a chart line)
4 the text is more than that pencil is more associated with plain txt, this is has you guys know more than that. (maybe stuill neads some work to separate the test an image bit's a bit more
5 8 is image not working i know :)
6 9 is spreadsheet ...... work needed obviusly.
BTW its my birthay :)
Friedrich
- too fuzzy, not clearly enough outlined
- too much gray (shade and around the icons)
I would rather go for better oxygen integration, as they will live side by side later with other file types so they should look integrated and not stick out because of a different look.
As long as they are recognized as odf office files there's no need to stick too much to the logo look. Imho an icon style should keep them recognizable but give them an individual/special touch, that's what the style is for.
If you have say 10 spreadsheets and 10 letters in a folder it would be easier to differentiate between them if there are colour cues.
Using the OpenDocument icon is an interesting idea, but it does use up a lot of space.
Anyhow - keep up the good work :)
- colors too much toned down, not vibrant/colorful enough
(this goes hand in hand with too much of gray)
Ease to recognize if you are well instructed and educated person but definitely not that much if you got no clue at all.
You must pay more attention in that kind of issue if you want to reach *every* user in any part of the planet.
That's now a reality: KDE is being used in many part of the globe , even in places that there is actually no energy lines. Definitely not easy, thought.