Well I can answer that I think:
The Font Awesome Community Theme (FACT) or Awesome Kommunity Icons (AKI) - abbreviations hehe - are ment as a sort of "inapp library of icons" it's not a complete set to be used by all or even by the system. It's a way of getting Calligra - Kmymoney and other software a unified set of in-app icons they can use and also to create a "plain" theme for people who want to get into icon design but don't know how to download and mimic but in a nice pedagogical way. A sort of first step towards making a library of assets that can be used in a nice way.

Its also a great way of getting a community interested in it without promising them they can ruin anything if it would fail but still create something nice. A place for people to train up their design-eyes without letting them run havoc on the defined end product. To play around, to try and to really get the feel for it.

So just ignore that bit (or take the good bits from it if you like).

jensreuterberg wrote:Well I can answer that I think:
The Font Awesome Community Theme (FACT) or Awesome Kommunity Icons (AKI) - abbreviations hehe - are ment as a sort of "inapp library of icons" it's not a complete set to be used by all or even by the system. It's a way of getting Calligra - Kmymoney and other software a unified set of in-app icons they can use and also to create a "plain" theme for people who want to get into icon design but don't know how to download and mimic but in a nice pedagogical way. A sort of first step towards making a library of assets that can be used in a nice way.

Its also a great way of getting a community interested in it without promising them they can ruin anything if it would fail but still create something nice. A place for people to train up their design-eyes without letting them run havoc on the defined end product. To play around, to try and to really get the feel for it.

So just ignore that bit (or take the good bits from it if you like).

Alright. Thanks for clearing that up.

So, this is very much a starting point on the action icons, if they look blurry is because I made them in 24px and I think the toolbar is using 22px. The icons in question are: back, forward, icon view, list view and tree view.. They are aligned to the Inkscape grid and are very thin.



Here's the full image: http://imgur.com/5xf0MJi.

Looks great!

I seem to remember that the Oxygen action icons were meant to be monochrome in the beginning, but that it was changed later. Does anyone know why? If not it might be worth to ask Nuno about it, to hear what their thought process was at that time.

(As far as I remember the reason was something like "there are so many icons, making them distinguishable without color is very hard. But I may be completely wrong about that.)

Well we're sticking with monochrome for actions either way - I just hope Uri doesn't explode from all the work he's doing (for those who don't know Uri is handling a hardware project which is pretty damn cool AND he's helping the Numix guys with their desktop AND he's doing icon themes and on and on - so I just assume he lives on a diet of coffee and amphetamines or something )

Uri: action icons look great, keep at it!

Hans wrote:Looks great!

I seem to remember that the Oxygen action icons were meant to be monochrome in the beginning, but that it was changed later. Does anyone know why? If not it might be worth to ask Nuno about it, to hear what their thought process was at that time.

(As far as I remember the reason was something like "there are so many icons, making them distinguishable without color is very hard. But I may be completely wrong about that.)

He didn't mentioned that when we talked though, but back then the icons might have been ahead of their time if they had been monochromatic, so their time is now... I guess.

jensreuterberg wrote:Well we're sticking with monochrome for actions either way - I just hope Uri doesn't explode from all the work he's doing (for those who don't know Uri is handling a hardware project which is pretty damn cool AND he's helping the Numix guys with their desktop AND he's doing icon themes and on and on - so I just assume he lives on a diet of coffee and amphetamines or something )

Uri: action icons look great, keep at it!

Alright, I'll continue with them.
More like a subway sandwiches diet, I love them. Yeah much stuff, so little time. Thanks

Looks great Uri! Go for it, I say.

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Uri_Herrera wrote:So, this is very much a starting point on the action icons, if they look blurry is because I made them in 24px and I think the toolbar is using 22px.

Yes, all icons are 22x22, in KDE there aren't 24x24 icons

notmart wrote:

Uri_Herrera wrote:So, this is very much a starting point on the action icons, if they look blurry is because I made them in 24px and I think the toolbar is using 22px.

Yes, all icons are 22x22, in KDE there aren't 24x24 icons

Got it, thanks.

Is there a list of the icons?, all of them?.

Verbalshadow posts a lists of all but App icons (I think, correct me if I'm wrong), three or four posts down

viewtopic.php?f=285&t=120026

Ok, so I finished some more icons, they're now at 22px and I also started with the folders. I tried to make them have more of a refreshed Oxygen feel, they're more blue-ish than Oxygen though, I kinda like them but not enough.

More icons, I've added icons for Kate and polished the folders a bit.

Some feedback on recognizability of the icons (anything about aesthetics would just be my personal taste talking anyway):

The Dolphin icons are generally very clear (the view mode icons probably only work when seen together, but that's fine since they won't be shown separately anyway), great job!

For the Kate icons: The New, Open, Back and Forward as well as the Close icons are pretty clear.
What might not be clear are the other four. Since I don't have Access to Kate at the moment, I honestly have no idea what they do. The right two look like previous/next page (though I don't know what that would man in Kate), the others don't say anything to me. This may be the case with the Oxygen icons as well, but I think they could use another iteration.

Cool stuff Uri! As I see more and more of these icons as they come together the more I'm liking the general direction. Like Thomas' suggestions, there may be a few tweaks worth considering here and there, but I'm genuinely excited by how this starts to play into the overall visual design goals of high quality paper as the canvas, the Next color scheme and the overall mood.

I'm currently switching between Compass and Nitrux and, especially for the monochrome icons, it's quite interesting to experience how light and effortless everything starts to become when it starts to integrate with other areas we're working on. I just posted the below screenshot in the plasma theme thread:



Never mind the layout issues... That's a plasma theme clock, an application widget style that approximates what we're aiming for, a windec that does the same and Compass monochrome icons that have a relatively similar weight to these icons you're working on Uri. I think a credible, cohesive design language is starting to emerge from our wonderful community chaos that honors our visual design goals!

colomar wrote:Some feedback on recognizability of the icons (anything about aesthetics would just be my personal taste talking anyway):

The Dolphin icons are generally very clear (the view mode icons probably only work when seen together, but that's fine since they won't be shown separately anyway), great job!

For the Kate icons: The New, Open, Back and Forward as well as the Close icons are pretty clear.
What might not be clear are the other four. Since I don't have Access to Kate at the moment, I honestly have no idea what they do. The right two look like previous/next page (though I don't know what that would man in Kate), the others don't say anything to me. This may be the case with the Oxygen icons as well, but I think they could use another iteration.

Pretty much the reason you can tell which icon is which is how much you use the software, the other is that the icons you see are familiar to what you've been using for years which is why with the others you can't figure out what they are about.

The most obvious is the save icon (the paper sheet with the down-facing arrow), I changed it because the floppy is not relevant in this day and age, it has been there all along because the people designing stuff are familiar with it, younger people don't know what that is, they only know that it means save. I used a floppy for the very last time about 6-8 years ago, coincidentally when Oxygen was being worked on.

I also have started to implement this in my sets, like Compass and Flattr.

The next one is save as, which is just a different kind of save, and that is reflected in the icon, it's the same just with fill instead of the strokes. If we skip a generation from not using the floppy to mean save then it'll finally die out and people will come up with better, much more modern solution.

Then the next/prev. document, I have never used them since I have the document view enabled below. That view is also opened by default (?) when you first start Kate on a fresh system so I don't know why those buttons are there.

The next one is close, this one will be mostly used in windows with Tabs such as Dolphin, Konqueror/Rekonq and in Kate to close the document. In Kate I also don't know why is there because when you use Ctrl+W it does the same, and also File>Close. I'm missing the symlink so right now it displays the Oxygen icon in Dolphin and the web browsers. Also in the buttons, should the user have that enabled.

And finally, undo and redo, arrows rotating are usually what people do to mean these (I also have them like that in Compass for the lack of a better option at the time), I simply integrated the arrows into the paper sheet with a more straightforward feeling. In Nitrux however they're simply triangles pointing at opposite directions.

alake wrote:Cool stuff Uri! As I see more and more of these icons as they come together the more I'm liking the general direction. Like Thomas' suggestions, there may be a few tweaks worth considering here and there, but I'm genuinely excited by how this starts to play into the overall visual design goals of high quality paper as the canvas, the Next color scheme and the overall mood.

I'm currently switching between Compass and Nitrux and, especially for the monochrome icons, it's quite interesting to experience how light and effortless everything starts to become when it starts to integrate with other areas we're working on. I just posted the below screenshot in the plasma theme thread:



Never mind the layout issues... That's a plasma theme clock, an application widget style that approximates what we're aiming for, a windec that does the same and Compass monochrome icons that have a relatively similar weight to these icons you're working on Uri. I think a credible, cohesive design language is starting to emerge from our wonderful community chaos that honors our visual design goals!

Cool, would like to see the rest of the theme too.

Okay the "previous/next document" icons are pretty clear once you know what they mean. Actually a lot better than the current simple arrows.
The undo/redo icons are problematic, because now we have the same icons meaning something completely different in different applications. I don't think they're particularly bad for either function, but having different functions behind the same icons depending on the applications isn't a good idea I think. Therefore, could you create some (at least slightly) different icons for back/forward vs. undo/redo?

As for the save icon: Yes, floppy disks are antiquated, but they still work great for save icons, because they've transitioned from something resembling a physical object to an abstract picture strongly associated with a function and as such don't need the physical link to work anymore. See this Google+ post by Nuno himself about this here: https://plus.google.com/104287161566251 ... 8bBwjkCZfW
I see no advantage in replacing an icon which works great for that function even today (there is even empirical evidence for that: http://user-prompt.com/about-antiquated ... -in-icons/ ) with one that has to be learned anew, just because the former is resembling something "outdated". I am convinced you could create an icon which resembles the established "floppy disk" icon but looks modern and fits the rest of the theme, don't you think?