Add "libreoffice" icons about flatwoken HOT 7 CLOSED

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That one is too simple for me. Did you see the libreoffice-writer icon I have in the repo? I would like to follow a similar approach, i.e. not simply take the libreoffice outline and add a long shadow, but to completely change the design in order to better fit the guidelines for this iconset. I'm not sure if I'm that clear, if you want I can explain again :)

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The writer icon is cool, but the libre office icon is just a blank paper, so when you leave out the lines on the writer icon you'd have the office icon, a bit too minimalistic maybe... This 'full icons' are just another style than the framed icons, so e.g dropbox and icons like that would have to be redone to match the full icon style, using only cutouts of the original icons. The shadow almost becomes obsolete in this style, like in the writer B icon. Still early enough to think about setting the whole theme to the full icon style and completely abandon the framed icons with shadows... especially because on android there are plenty of themes folowing this long shadow style already :D

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You're not getting my point. I'm not saying that every icon should be
shadowless, because it wouldn't make sense (it's a long shadow iconset, and
I'm not changing that because I want to do a long shadow iconset,
regardless of the "competition").
What I'm saying, is that some icons are good with the classical approach,
ie the logo (or its outline) with a long shadow in a rounded square that
acts as a frame.

But if you use straightforwardly this approach you end up in having poorly
designed icons. There are so many possibilities, especially with the icon
has two main parts. Take the hangouts icon: the first approach is depicted
in hangouts_B, and it's just plain easy. On the other side, there's
hangouts.svg: the icon in itself became the frame, whereas its content
(i.e. the two white "quotes") became the main object of interest (i.e. the
one that is shadowed). And this results in turning the idea around, and
doing good design: remember that here we're talking about minimalism first,
and so reducing the clutter and the complexity in order to reach the most
efficient icon. Everyone will still recognize that as an hangouts icon, but
that is not the hangouts icon any more, because the original logo has been
shrunk to its essential value.

But, in order to do so, you cannot simply "zoom" the icon: you have to
carefully select what icon can do that (because, for example, it needs to
have more than one object in the logo -- the hangouts has them, but the
dropbox does not), and to carefully design them because otherwise the
result would be poor.

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Really? That's absolutely awesome! :)

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I think I'm messing things around (I'm a git newbie, so I still have to learn it :) ). What were you referring to when you were saying "Really? That's absolutely awesome! :)" ? To the fact that I'm planning to have this iconset both on Android and Linux?

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I've added libreoffice icons. Do you like them?

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