Galaxy Icons

DaveRD · OOo Enthusiast Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 121

http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_galaxy.html

I have been trying to find more information or details as to the progress of these new icons for OOo, but haven't had much luck. I am curious to try them out sometime.

Does anyone know how far along this icon set is?
Does anybody know when it will be included in the developer builds?

Thanks,
Dave

Caracalla · Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 4:50 am Post subject:

ooo, looks nice. More information would be appreciated here as well.

acknak · Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 7:18 am Post subject:

Yes, especially in regard to the "Tango" icon set, which is (by some accounts) on the verge of adoption as the cross-platform default. At least Novell seems to be moving full speed in that direction.

I've seen nothing definitive from any OO.org source, but according to the last RC release notes it should be included, but I don't see it yet.

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=56565

Dancing Tango on the Desktop -- GNOME Journal, 4 March 07

http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Showroom

Maybe Tango is just going to be an "alternative icon set" like "Industrial" or "Crystal," and Galaxy is going to be the official default. I rather hope not, as Tango seems to have a lot of momentum as a unified desktop application icon set.

DaveRD · OOo Enthusiast Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 121

DaveRD · OOo Enthusiast Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 121

I just found out from Sun that the Galaxy icon set is targeted for release with OOo 3.0, but should be available for testing around the time when 2.3.1 is released.

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acknak · Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 8:21 am Post subject:

I'd like to call this yet another bone-headed "NIH" move, but Sun may have licensing issues that force it to develop it's own icon set that it can legally sell with Star Office.

I guess this is another way that having a proprietary sibling project actually impedes progress.

PS: I just checked: Tango is under a CC:ShareAlike license, so I don't see why Sun would have to pay to license it, but IANAL.

Quest-88 · Newbie Joined: 25 Dec 2005 Posts: 3

On video from OOoCon 2006 We saw new icons..

Visual Identity of OpenOffice.org Now and in Future - Logos, Icons and other branding bugs in OOo2 and OOo3

see also: http://ooocon-arnes.kiberpipa.org/media/Visual_Identity_Bernhard_Dippold/slide.odp

DaveRD · OOo Enthusiast Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 121

Quest-88,

Thank you for posting that information. Especially the slide show, it was nice to see what might be in store for OOo sometime down the road. I look forward to see what comes of it.

Ed · Super User Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 816

DaveRD · OOo Enthusiast Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 121

acknak · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:02 pm Post subject:

An update: The Tango icons are included in the latest snapshot from OO.org, and scheduled for release with 2.3 in September. They can ne selected as another icon set, chosen under Tools > Options > OO.org > View, or they will be selected automatically if your desktop specifies it. On my Fedora 7/Gnome, the snapshot uses Tango by default.

They are already included in the official OOo packages from Novell, Fedora and Ubuntu (and maybe others).

Having seen them in a real app, I can't say I like them all that much. Although the overall look is clean and attractive, I find them difficult to distinguish visually. E.g. the old File > Open icon was a distinct yellow color and folder shape. In Tango, it's a dull gray, er something, I can't quite tell what.

DaveRD · OOo Enthusiast Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 121

The Galaxy Icons are finally out as of DEV300_m10.

Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/109305881/images.zip.html

- Backup your original images.zip first.
- Copy the downloaded images.zip to your share/config/ folder.
- Select them as Default in OOo settings.

Dave

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