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

How much of another distro will really be visible in a screenshot, though? I feel like most people 
would just say, "Hey, that's a cool looking theme..." and move on.

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Christopher Lee
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On Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 10:55 PM, planas wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 23:43 +0300, David Nelson wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Jean Hollis Weber <jeanweber@gmail.com 
> > (mailto:jeanweber@gmail.com)> wrote:
> > > I still am not convinced that there is any real marketing or other
> > > advantage to having coloured title bars and highlighting *in the user
> > > guide illustrations* -- I don't see why they need to be the same, as the
> > > purpose and use of the two are different, and the screenshots themselves
> > > will be different (so no reuse advantage to us).
> > >
> > > To me having the user guide screenshots in gray DOES have advantages FOR
> > > THE USERS: they are less likely to be distracted by the difference
> > > beween whatever colours they see on their screen and the gray in the
> > > screenshots; and the gray looks less "foreign" to Mac users.
> >
> > I agree with what Jean says. Gray is a practical choice.
> >
> > But, also, after having reflected on this subject since past
> > discussions on the documentation ML, I'm no longer totally convinced
> > of the need to have total uniformity in screenshots, nor even of the
> > need to have them all done under Linux rather than Windows. Providing
> > that a little common sense is used, having some variety only
> > emphasizes that LibreOffice runs on a large variety of platforms and
> > under a wide variety of GUIs.
>
> +1
>
> > In reality, it's important for us not to raise the entry barriers to
> > contribution too high, because I notice that most people only
> > contribute for a short period of time and then tend to fall away. The
> > number of regular work contributors (as opposed to mailing list
> > contributors) is quite low.
> >
> > We already use standardized chapter templates, and Jean and others
> > have done great work on the documentation team contributor's guide (an
> > on-going work). Do we really have to get too fussy about standardized
> > themes used for taking screenshots? As we've already read in this
> > thread, it can develop into quite a complicated issue, and I'd suggest
> > we really have other more-urgent issues to deal with...
> >
> > Just my own 2 cents...
> >
> > -- 
> > David Nelson
>
> Actually I think some the Linux distros might enjoy unintentional free
> publicity from a screenshot. Depending on each contributer's set up
> there could be some hopefully only differences.
>
> -- 
> Jay Lozier
> jslozier@gmail.com (mailto:jslozier@gmail.com)
>
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