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

Le 2011-06-25 07:00, Astron a écrit :
> Hi Marc,
>
> > Actually, if we do adapt and name our theme, our goal, like any other
> > product in our "arsenal of products" would be to use it to our marketing
> > advantage. We could easily market it as a theme optimized for screenshots
> > and people would gladly download our "LibreOffice Theme" for this reason and
> > not necessarily for LibreOffice reasons.
> Clearly, maintaining an own theme is a lot of work. For instance, I
> don't know if Clearlooks has already been ported to Gnome 3.
> Another thing to note is that
> a) Mac theming is not customisable at all today and
> b) Windows theming is far less flexible than in the 2000 era (well,
> the legacy theming engine from Windows 2000 and earlier is still
> present, but it simply doesn't look temporary any more). It also isn't
> easy to install a third-party modern theme engine like Clearlooks in
> XP or later, additionally the free ones I've seen were all not very
> high-quality ones (I think they also have to be signed in Vista and 7,
> but I'm not sure). In Vista's and 7's Aero mode one can only choose a
> hue for the window frame.
> c) Gnome 3 theming is currently also not customisable via GUI, even
> though it has a very flexible CSS theming engine now.
>
> So that leaves KDE fully configurable but this is probably the least
> used among the platforms.
> A practical solution would be to offer a download package for Gnome
> and KDE (where all that should be changed should be the colors of a
> standard theme like Clearlooks, plus maybe a .fonts.conf to configure
> font display), and giving Windows Vista/7 users hints as to how to
> change the window frame hue in their system.

Using the practical solution then will make it more difficult to install 
from the user point of view. The idea was to find an easily installable 
theme that would enable more member participation at taking screenshots 
for our various documentation, website, marketing etc work.
> > If we are going to be serious about quality document production, website,
> > etc. then we should maybe consider adding the care of the LibreOffice theme
> > to the list of responsibility of the dev team. I imagine that we could also
> > enlist the help of the website team experts in this domain. It could be a
> > shared responsibility and it doesn't necessarily mean that it is "someone's"
> > responsibility but more of a responsibility of the dev/website or dev  team
> > for whoever would like to take it up.
> Here's an idea of mine: a public screenshot machine where after a
> login people can easily make screenshots within their browser windows.
> However, it would be difficult to make screenshots that require
> devices or OSs not installed on the machine. Additionally you'd need
> to make sure that people can upload example files etc. before they
> start the session and can download their screenshots afterwards.
> (Please note, I am just throwing this out here and have no idea how
> hard this would be to implement!).
>
> There were also some questions about FreeSans being opensource, yes,
> it is. It can be downloaded from here:
> http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ . It should share most of
> its metrics with Arial/Liberation Sans, aside from its line-height
> being much higher—I suppose that's because of the comprehensive
> language support. But if you've already decided, stick with
> Liberation.
>
> Astron.
 Sound like an idea worth exploring, but, still sounds complicated to 
implement.

Cheers

Marc

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