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Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: | Is it just me, or does the openoffice icon artwork look really terrible | and difficult-to-understand? I opened a bugzilla for it: | | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156424 | | If those agreeing/disagreeing could post comments there, it would be | great. | | Kyrre Ness Sj�b�k | IMHO it is without question *just you*. Personally, they're among the very few icons that are bright, colorful and _easy_ to identify. The problem I see for newbies is that gnome isn't as inviting as kde because _a lot_ of the icons and themes use dark or matte colors (not bad in my book) which tends to make them unreadable (_very, very_ bad in my book). This is one of the many reasons that kde is so much more popular with newbies. It's more M$-like - true - but one of the main reasons that kde is M$-like is the polish of there brightly colored "friendly" icons. This is something the new OOo icons have captured and again, it's a _very, very, very good thing_.

Craig

søn, 01.05.2005 kl. 12.08 skrev Nicu Buculei:

Craig wrote:

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Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: | Is it just me, or does the openoffice icon artwork look really terrible | and difficult-to-understand? I opened a bugzilla for it: | | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156424 | | If those agreeing/disagreeing could post comments there, it would be | great. |

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IMHO it is without question *just you*. Personally, they're among the very few icons that are bright, colorful and _easy_ to identify.

Craig, you are sure we are talking about the same icons? The ones from devel (OOo 1.9.x) not the ones from FC3 (Bluecurve)

Which aparently come from Sun.

I agree that the *old* OO 1.x icons where nice and really really easy to identify (and it looks like the "filetype" icons are still the same as the old ones - hooray!) - and i want'em back. Only need to create a icon for "OO database"... (the database icon is the only recognizable one - but it has to go for a icon that is similar to the others.)

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Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: | s�n, 01.05.2005 kl. 12.08 skrev Nicu Buculei: |> |>Craig, you are sure we are talking about the same icons? The ones from |>devel (OOo 1.9.x) not the ones from FC3 (Bluecurve) Yes, I'm talking about OOo 1.9x icons. The bluecurve icons are good and an excellent choice for business. However, regardless of your opinion, I prefer Sun's icons. Frankly, they will be far more familiar and friendlier to newbies and desktop users transferring from one a windows environment especially if the company properly transitions to the necessary open source apps prior to any linux desktop migration.

| | Which aparently come from Sun. | | I agree that the *old* OO 1.x icons where nice and really really easy to | identify (and it looks like the "filetype" icons are still the same as | the old ones - hooray!) - and i want'em back. Only need to create a icon | for "OO database"... (the database icon is the only recognizable one - | but it has to go for a icon that is similar to the others.) |

That's your opinion and if you want one, you probably won't have to wait long. Bluecurve is one of the only themes to include their own personal icons for OOo apps and I'm sure the database app will be added for RHEL 4 if for no other purpose.

Moreover, the lack of "red hat" logos and icons is the purposeful and the final (visual) step in accomplishing the mission of fedora to be as close to upstream as possible. Therefore, the default GNOME theme is being used as default. If you want the the Bluecurve theme, just choose it from the theme app located in the preferences menu or download it from the gnome site, your choice. Don't expect them to go back now that they've finally transitioned away from corporate logos, icons, etc.

Craig