New Icons ... I don't like them

[Flutemaker]

Hello,
new to the Forum...
I mainly registered to express my dislike of the new bland icons...
I must try to re-install the old set which was way better.
The new icons are the main reason why I didn't upgrade on my main computer...

There seems to be a tendency to blandness if you look at the new iTunes Version which sports various shades of grey in grey - same story...bring back colour...not the right forum for this, but an example of how this "grey matter" seems to go around...

Regards,
Flutemaker...

[itet]

Couldn't find a monochrome smilies, so here is one O and another 0

My point is Oracle may wish to brand the product, but the consequence is branding the product out of the market place and user usability. When this happenned I lost one client with 5 installs to MS office and that is after 3 years of using the product, they couldn't find their files. My other clients have been put on a holding pattern for updates.

I'm hoping libreoffice will restore the MIME type associations, but if not will have to look at patching installs with old icons, with large number of clients that is a pain.

I will certainly remember Oracle for a long time for making us Please bring back the old file associations icons.

[Tommy]

this issue http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=112141
has already 247 votes but Oracle is still ignoring it...

[floris v]

Maybe they're planning to add coloured icons to the paid version.

[brama]

Hi!

Me too consider to "downgraded from OO 3.2.1 to the 3.2.0"?
How do you do to that?
Is it necessary to uninstall the 3.2.1 and download the 3.2.0 or is there a more easy way to do it?

Has anybody presented any kind of logical motivation for the introduction of the "new" an depressing layout?

B

[Hagar Delest]

You've to uninstall 3.2.1 first at least. But I'm not sure it removes the icons also.

For the new layout, see that discussion. It's not very clear for me but I'm not sure it comes from an Oracle rebranding.

[mriosv]

Why depressing?
It's a clean layout, (And the ORACLE in red is more visible).
But I cannot understand why anybody go down the OOo version only for the icons?

[Hagar Delest]

+1. The only problem is the wrong file association (see bug report at beginning of the topic) and the lack of colors. The new icons are rather nice I think, very similar to PDF icons under Windows, it makes a kind of coherence for office documents.

NB: I think that the ODF icons should be something handled by the OASIS group, not OOo. See also: Unified ODF Icons.

[brama]

Why depressing?
It's a clean layout, (And the ORACLE in red is more visible).

I do not like the Oracle company and I am sad to hear that they have taken over the OO.
Greedy imperialistic capitalists ....

Consequently I do not like to see the Oracle logo on the front page.

B

[franx]

However--the logo is RED.

[brama]

However--the logo is RED.

On the surface ... yeas

[PGAGA]

Friday, November 12, 2010

There is an extension which can restore the previous icons.

Phil

[brama]

Friday, November 12, 2010

There is an extension which can restore the previous icons.

Phil

Where is it ?

B

[Tommy]

after months of silence, the OOo finally replied to the 248 votes against monochrome ODF icons...

read this: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/ini ... i_team_for

it seems they still don't wanna recognize that those icons were a fiasco...
they are creating an i_team to improve those unusable icons but they are still refusing to do the only one intellgent thing which is to restore application-oriented-color-codes of the icons.

i'm strongly considering to switch to LibreOffice...

[Hagar Delest]

OASIS, where are you???

[Tommy]

OASIS, where are you???

who is OASIS?

[Hagar Delest]

See OASIS Open Document informations.

[juhele]

I have also problem with the new icons as have worse vision. I was used to get quickly overview of my folder contents according to the color of the icons (orange for drawings, green for spreadsheets etc.) - this helped me much as I for example tried to find OpenDocument Presentation in a folder with many ODT files with similar name - only the one was red. And now, I have to slowly find it looking on extension and name.
Unfortunately, on some machines I do not have privileges to change the icons manualy file by file.

PS: you are talking about LibreOffice - which mime file icons do they use under Windows? They use those good old ones?

[Bidouille]

Hello,

you are talking about LibreOffice - which mime file icons do they use under Windows? They use those good old ones?

No, LibO will use a new design.

See the Christoph Noack's blog: http://luxate.blogspot.com/2011/01/libr ... stone.html

[Tommy]

LibreOffice icons have a different design but have the same good old "color coded" scheme as old OOo's icons

green 4 Calc, blue 4 Writer etc. etc.

monochrome icons are useless and even stupid

[Ed2]

PS: you are talking about LibreOffice - which mime file icons do they use under Windows? They use those good old ones?

LibreOffice 3.3 uses the same icons as OOo 3.

[Tommy]

LibreOffice 3.3 icons are color-coded.
remember: color-coded=usable

OpenOffice 3.3 icons are still monochrome.
remember: monochrome=unusable

253 votes for issue http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=112141 still mean nothing to Oracle.

remember: Oracle doesn't care about the Community

[GenXAccord]

Since the new version of Open Office has not fixed the problem of the nasty monochrome icons I am downgrading to version 3.2.0 myself. I cannot seem to find the file folder that was suggested to replace the new icons for the old ones, and I don't want to break anything by trying, so I will do the next easiest thing. It would appear from the link to the "Initializing an I-Team for the improvement of the ODF-icons " and what was stated on that page, mainly that "We think the icons are a step in the right direction" and "That’s why we are creating an i-team that will be responsible for the changes on the ODF icons" that the the new overseers of OO have a corporate management structure that is probably very similar to General Motors and Walmart. (What bland, uncreative management wants, they get.) I think I will stay with OO 3.2.0 until this issue has been fixed to an acceptable degree, and if it is not, I will check into this "Libre Office" thing. And I really liked how fast OO 3.3 opened up compared to the previous version, but I cannot stand the amount of hunting I have to do to identify my files because they all look the same. 90's icons indeed.

[Villeroy]

http://libreoffice.org

[GenXAccord]

Reinstalling 3.2.0 has fixed the problem with the nasty icons. Someone should buy either the development team, or the corporate management structure that is overseeing this, a Windows 7 computer so that they can migrate from the 90's to modern age. GUI was not meant to stay plain jane and boring forever.

[Ed2]

90's icons indeed.

I don't know where you got "90s" from. The problem icons were not drawn in the 90s, they were drawn in 2010.

[GenXAccord]

90's icons indeed.

I don't know where you got "90s" from. The problem icons were not drawn in the 90s, they were drawn in 2010.

A previous poster commented that the icons looked like something from the '90's circa Windows 3.1 era,and I agreed.

[GenXAccord]

Hmmm, having problems now, seems like the "newer" icons for 3.2.1 and above are back even though I uninstalled that and reinstalled 3.2.0. and it did fix it for awhile. They must have been lurking in a file that needs to be erased permanently before I reinstall 3.2.0

[Ed2]

90's icons indeed.

I don't know where you got "90s" from. The problem icons were not drawn in the 90s, they were drawn in 2010.

A previous poster commented that the icons looked like something from the '90's circa Windows 3.1 era,and I agreed.

Can you provide a link to the icons you think they look like?

As far as I know the offending icons are new, not copied from anything from the 90s or any other period other than 2010.

[GenXAccord]

After uninstalling 3.3 on Windows 7, make sure to delete the Open Office 3 folder if it remains in the c/program files directory. I think that was my problem with the lurking nasty new icons still showing up.