KOffice Sprint Food for Thought 1: Graphics

Hi there,

In preparation for the KOffice release sprint I have a number of things that I
think need discussion before the sprint. This mail is the first in a short
series of emails that will talk about these things.  In this one I want to
discuss Graphics.

We have a problems with the graphics in KOffice in several ways:
1. Icons
2. New logos that aren't used anywhere.
3. Still the old outdated website.

I want to discuss 1. and 2. above.  3 is more of a marketing question and will
be dealt with separately.

We used to have a person who was responsible for the graphics elements, but he
resigned due to too little time. Since then nobody has felt any
responsibility for the graphics in KOffice, and the result is that we
currently have a lot of missing icons. Also, I am not sure that the icons
that we do have are neither well integrated with each other nor in Oxygen,
even if I'm not sure that they are not either.

Anyway, it would be very good if somebody could step up to coordinate this
again within KOffice.  

The missing icons is not such a big problem given that we have repeated offers
by pinheiro and other artists to create KOffice graphics.  What worries me a
little is the lack of coordination and that the time is getting short.  We
should start to take care of this problem before the sprint, and it would be
great if somebody would step up as the coordinator.  Given that we are all
hackers perhaps we should announce a vacancy on blogs and the dot?

The second problem is the logos.  When they arrived, we all(?) agreed that
they were good and we should start using them.  However I don't see much of
that, and that's another thing that we should start doing.  The question is
how. This problem is probably smaller than the first, but also need to be
dealt with.

        -Inge
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> We used to have a person who was responsible for the graphics elements,
but
> he resigned due to too little time. Since then nobody has felt any
> responsibility for the graphics in KOffice, and the result is that we
> currently have a lot of missing icons. Also, I am not sure that the icons
> that we do have are neither well integrated with each other nor in Oxygen,
> even if I'm not sure that they are not either.
>
> Anyway, it would be very good if somebody could step up to coordinate this
> again within KOffice.
I'm already working with pinheiro, and some icons have even been commited
already, so I have stepped up, and more will happen in the time until the
release.

regarding the logos, I'm not liking that we we have seperatee app logos and I
think we should push for the single KOffice logo to be used everywhere.
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On Wednesday 01 October 2008 17:44:09 C. Boemann wrote:

> > We used to have a person who was responsible for the graphics elements,
>
> but
>
> > he resigned due to too little time. Since then nobody has felt any
> > responsibility for the graphics in KOffice, and the result is that we
> > currently have a lot of missing icons. Also, I am not sure that the icons
> > that we do have are neither well integrated with each other nor in
> > Oxygen, even if I'm not sure that they are not either.
> >
> > Anyway, it would be very good if somebody could step up to coordinate
> > this again within KOffice.
>
> I'm already working with pinheiro, and some icons have even been commited
> already, so I have stepped up, and more will happen in the time until the
> release.

This is wonderful news.

> regarding the logos, I'm not liking that we we have seperate app logos and
> I think we should push for the single KOffice logo to be used everywhere.

I don't agree here.  Let's discuss that in Berlin.

        -Inge
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