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Re: Some suggestions
by sulla on Friday 18/Apr/2008, @09:02

I fully agree!
The logos are cute, no question. They all obviously belong together fine.

But the symbolism does not remind me at all of what the applications are about.

For example
* a small mathematical symbol (like x²) in a circle for KFormula
* a Pencil in a circle for Krita
* horizontal "Gantt-like" bars for KPlato
* a tiny chart for KChart
* a hard disk - symbol for Kexi
* a small table for KSpread
* a tiny beamer for KPresenter
* a pen for Kword (o.k. everybody uses a pen... ;-)), curves for Karbon.
All that could be doable with the same or similar line styles and thicknesses and coloring, to retain the general look.

All of that in a circle, of course, and with the name of the application along with it!

Probably this might be a suggestion to use as ICONS, eventually.

Why are logos and icons different animals? Look at Amarok!

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Re: Some suggestions
by BATONAC on Friday 18/Apr/2008, @09:09

Rock on sulla! I fully agree with this post. All of it.

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Re: Some suggestions
by framie on Friday 18/Apr/2008, @12:10

I fully agree too. Without something more, the icons don't mean anything to me and I couldn't understand what app I'm supposed to use for a given task.

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Totally agree with Sulla's suggestions
by AD on Friday 18/Apr/2008, @15:24

Rock on!!! Great suggestions.

Can we do it that way, - pllleeeeeeaaaaassssee!!! :)

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Re: Totally agree with Sulla's suggestions
by Kerr Avon on Friday 18/Apr/2008, @16:41

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Re: Some suggestions
by anon on Friday 18/Apr/2008, @16:42

I completely agree

the logo's hold no meaning to the applications they are meant to be about. I do not use Koffice, and if I saw these logo's they would not inspire me to look into it, they are logo's that I would simply just ignore.

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Re: Some suggestions
by Oscar on Saturday 19/Apr/2008, @13:51

The application brings meaning to the icons, not the other way around. The triangular red thingy that PDF has as it's icon isn't immediatly obvious what it is.

Personally I think the icons are beautiful and think that they should be used wherever possible. Well thought out and nice looking.

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Re: Some suggestions
by hgj on Friday 18/Apr/2008, @16:42

Don't agree. Not every icon has to look like what the application does. Think about logos. How does the coca-cola logo look like? What does the acrobat-reader icon show? Why does the kde "start-menu" have a icon with an "K" and not an picture of a small menu?

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Re: Some suggestions
by Dave on Saturday 26/Apr/2008, @08:12

Actually Coca-Cola is a very bad example in this context because the white on red "logo" only stands for _one_ product. All the other products (Fanta, Sprite, ...) by that company are quite different in shape, color etc.

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Re: Some suggestions
by Martin Fitzpatrick on Saturday 19/Apr/2008, @03:14

I think (mentioned elsewhere in the thread) if we take out the middle symbol (from inside the circle) and place it over a recognisable document 'template' they would work great as application icons. Example I used is the KSpread arrows over a page of spreadsheet cells. But would also work putting the KPresenter "Play" over a presentation-like page.

This could work really well.

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Re: Some suggestions
by Shadowfiend on Saturday 19/Apr/2008, @07:11

It bears pointing out that:
* Krita basically is a pencil on a canvas in a circle,
* A play button, when talking about office apps, isn't a particularly bad symbol for a presentation program,
* W is bsaically the symbol used for MS Word, so obviously using that is a recognizable shape (though the fact that it is shared between those two programs might not be good).
* The KChart icon basically *ιs* a small chart, it just has one line on it.

Basically, all the applications seem to evoke evither their function or their name (Kugar, for example, has a pair of whiskers, basically). The only one that is a little weird in that regard is KPlato (as pointed out elsewhere, even KFormula has a square root).

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Re: Some suggestions
by Valerie on Monday 21/Apr/2008, @09:45

I'd love this suggestion too!

Yes, people have pointed out that most logos don't look their part (Coca-Cola etc). Then again, those companies took years (and/or millions in advertising) to build brand-recognition and for everybody to know what they are about.

Also, most applications and companies don't have a whole series of icons. They stick to one. There's a difference between remembering 1 logo and 10 logos. Anybody could see one of them and know that it's a KOffice application, but they'd have to wrack their memory to remember which.

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