Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Consistent theme for screenshots

Le 2011-06-23 14:30, Bernhard Dippold a écrit :
> Hi again,
>
> I'll start with my thoughts on the topic.
>
> Fell free to provide yours.
>
> Once we finished this collection and basic discussion we should move 
> the results to a dedicated wiki page for further reference.
> But for the direct discussion I prefer the mailing list more:
>
> Bernhard Dippold wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > Consistency is a relevant part of Visual Identity and therefore I'd
> > like to ask you all provide your thoughts on
> >
> > 1) how such a UI theme should look like
>
> - It should be clean, balanced and friendly as we refer to LibreOffice 
> on our branding wiki page: 
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding#Branding
>
> - It should look familiar to Windows users, so they don't consider the 
> office suite as "geeky" and specially designed for GNU/Linux users.
>
> - It should look up-to-date to most users, so Windows XP style should 
> be avoided (as it resembles too many people to an "old-fashioned" 
> office suite).
>
> - It should be accessible for visually impaired people (at least for 
> the most common cases like red-green color blindness).
>
> - It should have enough contrast to print well in greylevels.
> >
> > 2) what other conditions should be met
>
> - It should *not* use a standard Windows theme, because there are 
> legal issues [1].
>
> - It should be available for most users, because providing screenshots 
> is a task that might be solved by new contributors on their first 
> steps into our community (if we provide the necessary background to 
> take the screenshots in a consistent way).
>
> >
> > 3) which existing UI theme would serve best as standard for
> > screenshots
>
> Sigrid already uploaded a variety of themes to this wiki page:
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DE/Doku/Allgemein/Screenshots
>
> On the de-discuss list she voted for the theme "Clearlooks" because
> - it is the standard theme on Gnome
> - it has been ported to KDE as "Cleanlooks"
> - it is available for Windows XP too, so even Windows users can take 
> screenshots without the legal restrictions mentioned above.
> (sorry, German:[2])
> >
> > Do you think these 3 questions could lead to a consensus on a theme
> > to be used? Should we add more points?
>
> Best regards
>
> Bernhard
>
> [1]: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/msg01950.html
> [2]: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/de/discuss/msg06547.html
>
> (Mail-archive.com seems not to be reachable at the moment)
I agree with all of these points. The ones that I would highlight, 
especially for our uses is the ability for contributing users being able 
to install the chosen theme easily on a *nix environment with the most 
popular windowing support such as KDE/Gnome; the theme should be 
optimized for print (as much as possible). If needed, a variance of the 
chosen theme could be designed in such as way that there be a slight 
difference to satisfy requirement from website use (more visual) and the 
documentation (visual + print). IMO, best if the theme could be the same 
setup for both, but, in the end, there may be different needs from one 
group and the other.

Cheers

Marc

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