+1 from my side.
best,
Charles.
a écrit :
>
> I think that is a good approach. Have some thematic commonality, but
> each vendor adapts the theme to local circumstances. But it may also
> be useful to have an icon that represents "ODF" the standard, for use
> on coffee mugs, conference brochures, etc.
>
> -Rob
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> Rob Weir
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> Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software
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> Re: [odf-adoption] standardizing odf icons?
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> Hi Louis,
>
> Thanks for bringing the topic to our attention again!
>
> Yes, I also believe that it would be useful to have an ODF icon
> that could be recognized across platforms and applications.
> An example for an ODF icon can be found here:
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/resource/ODF_glassy_100-n.png
>
> Since many OpenOffice.org/KOffice/etc. users still don't know
> very much about file formats in general and ODF in particular,
> it also would be necessary to have the different applications
> mark/brand the ODF icon in a way that users can find their
> OpenOffice.org/KOffice/etc. files. An example of a branded
> ODF icon, i.e. OpenOffice.org, can be found here:
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/resource/ODF_glassy_100.png
>
> Obviously, KOffice would not use the OpenOffice.org gulls in
> the icon. Thus, KOffice would use a version of the icon that
> showed the KDE-typical gear wheel plus the "K" instead of the
> gulls.
>
> Thus, all ODF files would have a similar look and feel, i.e.
> the same ODF branding element, across platforms and applications,
> but at the same time users still would be able to associate
> their document files with the right application.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Erwin
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>
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>
> Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
> > I've been in communication with a friend interested in standardizing
> the
> > icons for ODF files. It's also something, I believe, the ODF Fellowship
> > is interested in. I'm not sure how logistically feasible this would be
> > and have my doubts about its general desirability. Applications (or
> > rather their makers) tend to determine the icon set used, and in FOSS,
> > that means just about any distributor/implementor can do what it wants,
> > including ignoring what others want, unless there are legal constraints.
> >
> > However, there may be a reasonable compromise: a default set that
> may be
> > used. It would probably have to be trademarked, but by whom? Oasis, I'd
> > imagine. And who would police it? More generally, would it even be
> > considered worth it? The point of this is marketing: to build brand
> > awareness, and given the touted intra-implementation
> interoperability of
> > the format, I can see that advantage. But then, we should be focusing
> > not on simply creating icons for the format but encouraging (and
> > trademarking a logo) for implementations to use that brands them as
> > implementing ODF.
> >
> >
> >
> > best
> > louis
>
>
--
Charles-H. Schulz,
Associé / Associate
Ars Aperta.
