Re: Use of Galaxy Icons for the website

> 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
>