Calligra Icons

[Ken Vermette]

Those requests can certainly be done!

I hate to admit that we've already hit the freeze for icons this round, so
you'll need to bear with the icons as-is until the next version bump - but
it gives us some time to iterate, and iteration is never ever a bad thing.
I'll do new concepts for Plan and Flow; both of these applications I had
particular difficulty with, and I guess it shows. I guess I also
misunderstood Plan, but I have some new ideas I'll stew over. I'll also
iterate again on sheets.

My hands are a little tied for the next couple weeks on other projects, but
I'll set a reminder to tackle the changes.

Thanks for the feedback!

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org>
wrote:

> Hi Ken,
>
> thanks for all the work on these new icons!
> Have to admit I have to get used to yet another icon style (since KDE1 :P),
> but I start to like also this generation ;)
>
> Am Montag, 27. Juli 2015, 14:02:07 schrieb Ken Vermette:
> > By the sounds of it, the first (more traditional) icons are preferred,
> > basically for the same reasons I dumped the second set.
>
> I also prefer this "traditional" style set over the other, so +1 on that :)
>
> Reason is that I dislike the "suite" idea and rather see Calligra as a set
> of
> individual apps for individual purposes which just are smart to share lots
> of
> code :) (and that "office" suite model idea that MS brainwashed people into
> sucks, as it creates a rather artificial grouping)
>
> > So, if I may rail
> > the conversation onto these icons:
> >
> > https://share.kde.org/index.php/s/xgusKHJAjt5OIyW
>
> I fear the Plan icon(s) look too much like one of a pure calendaring/dates
> application. Ideally it would also somehow represent the aspect of resource
> planning and dependency management, being the core purpose of Plan.
> Perhaps using some Gantt iconics like it was done for the icon version with
> the color-coded icon set would work?
> For helping with characteristics, how would you do the icon for KOrganizer?
> Perhaps the currently proposed icon would fit that app better?
>
> The Flow icon also seems too far away from the aspect that Flow is for
> diagramming and flowcharting. The concept of stencils is missing for me, at
> least this is the icon I had to guess the hardest what it is for, and still
> have to teach me that. And the arrows hide for me usually, I always see a
> wheel or the cutting wheel like shape in the middle ;)
> (And the four colors in the four corners make me think of Windows software
> ;)
> ).
> It seems a nice idea especially given the name "Flow" of the application,
> though :) If the arrows would be less hidden by also having at least a
> little
> arrow shape on the outside, perhaps it might work better, and also give a
> more
> unique shape for better discoverage of the icon? Still, just arrows might
> need
> too much thinking to bridge the icon to diagramming and flowcharting.
>
> I first had to decode the Stage icon, but now that I got it, it makes
> sense to
> me immediately when I see it. Like it a lot, for uniqueness and symbolism
> :)
>
> Braindump icon looks funky as well to me :)
>
> Author and Words, well, tough thing, look okayish to me, distinct enough to
> know which one is for normal writing and which for poetry :)
>
> Karbon one seems fine to me as well :)
>
> Kexi is nice in its minimalism, though perhaps too much "db!" only. But
> Jarosław is your man here :)
>
> The Sheets icon is interesting, not in love with it, but could work.
>
>
> TL;DR I would like another concept for the Plan icons; the Flow icon
> should be
> touched more as well
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich
>
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