Change The Main Program's Window

Hi all,

 Astron started working on changing Main program's window (soffice.exe). I like when this window's icons have a large size. Does it need?
 Archive "main_window.7z" contains images that I use.
main_window.7z
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ape

Solo he took the document out of it? There is nothing else different about
it from how it is now. I don't know why but I do not like it.
On Apr 6, 2012 4:08 PM, "ape" <[hidden email]> wrote:

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Hi Ape,

>  Archive "main_window.7z" contains images that I use.

Interesting idea to remove the document icons from there. But why did
you do that?

The "Templates" icons you made seems a bit cluttered to me.
The "Open" icon is interesting but doesn't fit with Tango. However, it
should, since we need this icon in quite a number of places.


Astron.


PS: For anyone reading this, wondering which of these icons I actually
did, the answer is: the three small ones at the bottom were done by
Alex and me some time ago. The rest is ape's creation.

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Hi Astron,
You wrote:

> Interesting idea to remove the document icon from there. But why are you doing?
My eyes see badly (+3), and my monitor has a pixel with small size.
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> The "Templates" icons you made seems a bit cluttered to me.
It was necessary that all the icons were the same size. No that does not prevent change this icon.
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>The "Open" icon is interesting but doesn't fit with Tango.
I deliberately left on the theme (Tango, Classic, etc.) to the Brand. This is only the direction of motion, but not the final result. The folder's form can be any. The main thing is the color of the folder icon and the document must match the brand LibreOffice.
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ape

P.S. Icon "folder" contains an error - the template. See a replacement.folder_32.png

Hi, Astron
 What do You think about the idea of replacing "addons_" icons of OXT files (2 main colours; the palette by 256 colours)?
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 ape
addons-oxt_256colours.7z

P.S. Tango theme in need of replacement icons ("documents" to "templates"):
images_tango.zip\res\sx03127;sx03130;sx03163;sx03228;lx03127;lx03130;lx03163;lx03228. But I'm not sure that the big icons are needed. The window "Open" does not use large icons in the Windows-OS.
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ape
tango_res.7z

Hi Astron,
this is another variant:

The file "backing_left.png" is into archive.
backing_left.7z

Hello,

I do not see the point in changing the icons for the startup application,
you have not done anything but take away the documents in the icons. why
are you working on this? what are you trying to fix or change about this?


Andrew

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Hello, Andrew

 1. The file "backing_left.png" includes the post address TDF (under the logo). This is important in the image.
  You can see a picture of classical themes, which is excluded from LibreOffice. So I did not publish the rest of the image from folders "images_classic.zip\res\.."; "images_classic.zip\framework\res\..". But I use this updated theme (icons "Galaxy_16*16" have been replaced by "Classic") only and sometimes distracted in the Tango.

 2. Reasons:
  - The Classic theme of the lightest (1.8 MB uncompressed archive).
  - The theme is very suitable for users who are accustomed to Microsoft_Office.
   But this is the most difficult theme, because it uses indexed colors and large icons the size of "26*26".

 3. I do not want to change anything now, because there is only "alpha_3.5;3.6" of the classic theme.

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ape

Hello ape, Andrew,

>  1. The file "backing_left.png" includes the post address TDF (under the
> logo). This is important in the image.

I can't really see the use of having the post address there. In fact,
even having the logo there is debatable from my point of view. (Users
mainly want to _use_ the product, not stare at our branding.)


Sure, but only for users of Office 95-2000. Office XP and newer have
used different and more modern themes.

Regards,
Astron.

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 Hello, Astron.

You wrote:

>I can't really see the use of having the post address there. In fact,
>even having the logo there is debatable from my point of view. (Users
mainly want to _use_ the product, not stare at our branding.)

1. How many people have so many opinions. For example, I would like to see the main window is the same as in OOo4Kidds. But there is The Document Foundation, and there is a button "Donate" on the main web page.

>Sure, but only for users of Office 95-2000. Office XP and newer have
>used different and more modern themes.

2. You forgot about the EeePC... etc. It equiped low-end VGA. The user must have the choice to look at a very beautiful buttons or relieve a hard life of your video card. For example, I use the classic theme of the operating system (WIN7 and WINXP-64), even though my PCs equipped NVidia_GT560.

Regards,  ape.

Hi everyone,

To be honest, I don't like the changes proposed in this mailing list. I'm
really happy with the current home screen design.
That said, I wouldn't necessarily be against bigger icons or having a link
to the website somewhere, as long as it was designed well.

2012/4/28 ape <[hidden email]>

Most people can easily find our homepage themselves if they need it.
Those that can't wouldn't be technically competent enough to donate online
anyway.

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> >Sure, but only for users of Office 95-2000. Office XP and newer have
> >used different and more modern themes.
>
> 2. You forgot about the EeePC... etc. It equiped low-end VGA. The user must
> have the choice to look at a very beautiful buttons or relieve a hard life
> of your video card. For example, I use the classic theme of the operating
> system (WIN7 and WINXP-64), even though my PCs equipped NVidia_GT560.


Aero is very tasking, true, but icons don't really figure into the equation
here -- the difference between processing power required for the current
and the classic icons is so miniscule that it doesn't really make sense to
make big design decisions because of it.

In the long run, though, we could opt for a less tasking design direction
that uses simple 2D shapes and few colors instead of an intricate mix of
various colors and gradients, quasi-3D, and shadows and bevels. Google is
doing this on its services and on Android, Microsoft is doing this with
Metro on Windows, and designers in general are increasingly opting for
minimalistic designs.

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