About mime icons

Sandra Karuving lumks at ymail.com
Sun Sep 18 12:35:03 UTC 2016


first i have to say that i appricate your work much since i use the default 
design für my plasma desktop.
however some points i dislike.
for example for *.iso files. they have the shape of a document. *.iso files are 
(disk)images. they should have a form like this. it dont has to be round like 
a CD but they are not a document in any way. please also take this for other 
types that are no documents but have a document shape

next is the dark-on-colored backgrounds. it looks much to hard compared to 
white on colored backgrounds. it almost feels unfriendly or like "dont click 
me"

Also i really like the "office-like-icons" pastel background color compared to 
the "shy" colorings of all the others.

the biggest dislike however goes to the overall "much to line-ish"-look of the 
icons.

take this example: i have a directory only for word and excell documents 
(around 1500) shared with windows. this one is always in fullscreen. now open 
this already hurts my eyes with the current icons. why not have something more 
eye friendly like this: http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/ziggy19/microsoft-office-mac-tilt/512/Excel-icon.png thats what i miss the most something in 
between "strict-work-like" and "playfull" ...

Dont get me wrong i just want to help somehow here. i only think that you work 
out a "pixelperfect" design for a world that has already left the visible-
pixel-era for a few years

thanks for this 


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