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

Hi Jean, all,

sorry, Sigrid, you seem right: There is no chance to get a common 
agreement on how screenshots should look like in a reasonable time...

Jean Weber schrieb:
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 13:50, Marc Paré<marc@marcpare.com>  wrote:
> > Not sure if you read this but maybe you should take some time. Bernhard has
> > summed up all of the reasons that were proposed on uniformization on this
> > discussion thread in a recent post. Just in case you missed it, you may find
> > it here:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/design@global.libreoffice.org/msg02537.html  I
> > think he has put it all very eloquently and as plain as possible. I think
> > the reasons for writing up protocols are overwhelming.
>
> I respectfully disagree with Bernhard that there needs to be the
> uniformity between marketing screenshots and documentation
> screenshots.

In my eyes it is no need, it just have some advantages.

But if consistency in general is understood as uniformity or 
uniformization and standardization LibreOffice should avoid, I can't 
follow this approach.

I already stated that there might be reasons to have two different 
specifications for documentation an marketing screenshots, if there 
would be a need for two different themes.

I understood your previous replies differently, but I might be wrong.


> And while it may be desirable to have uniformity among
> the documentation screenshots, I don't think it's a big deal that they
> are not uniform. We can develop the uniformity as we update the docs
> for other reasons.

So you want to tell people to create the first set of screenshots with 
different themes and work on them in a second step again?

> That said, I completely agree that having guidelines for documentation
> screenshots is a good thing. Note: guidelines, not rules. Marketing is
> a different matter: much more important there.

We never discussed rules - even the branding guidelines are no rules 
(but they are highly recommended to use).

Every contributor can include the screenshots (s)he wants in any 
specific contribution. But if there is a help available to produce 
consistent screenshots, I'd like to be led to this help when I start to 
create screenshots.

If you and the rest of the documentation team are as opposed to a 
consistent look-and-feel in the LibreOffice documentation as David 
Nelson, we don't need to discuss this topic any more or vote on it at all.

But if you think, a guideline ("we recommend ...") leading to similar 
screenshots in our docs would be a good thing, please let's define the 
theme, so it can be used on our wiki and we can end this discussion.

Best regards

Bernhard

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