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

On 2011/07/05 3:57 PM  Bernhard Dippold wrote:
> Hi Jean, Sigrid, all,
>
> thanks for your mails that allow me to go a step further:
>
> Sigrid Carrera schrieb:
> > Hi Jean, Bernhard, *all,
> >
> > On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 06:49:04 +1000 Jean Weber<jeanweber@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > [...]
> >
> > Just for your information: the DE documentation team has voted for
> > the Clearlooks theme with green2 as the colour to use. I'm not very
> > happy with this choice, I would have preferred a "less noisy" colour
> > with still a good contrast, but it was a majority voting for this.
> > So, we're going to produce screenshots with this theme for our
> > documentation - and if necessary, we will provide screenshots for the
> > website too.
> I wrote:
> > > > [...] 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.
> >
> > Guidelines are good and important. I hope we can agree on some
> > guidelines within the whole project soon.
> >
> > > Yes, guidelines are good. I am all for guidelines. I have given my
> > > opinion on the desirable look of a theme for documentation, and
> > > I'll be away for 2.5 weeks so I won't be able to create any more
> > > noise on this subject. I hope it's decided by the time I get back.
> > > :-)
>
> Based on your comments in this thread I want to start a new thread for a vote on this topic.
>
> People should vote *either* for a consistent theme based on Jean's proposal: 
> http://go.mail-archive.com/xUDsiIBlv-ZqBlXMjn971KD2YDw=
>
> > - Clearlooks theme
> > - Font: Liberation bold
> > - Font size: 11 pt
> > - Highlight foreground color: Libre Green 2 (#43C330)
>
> *or* against any proposal to use a consistent theme for screenshots.
>
> Based on this decision there should be a wiki page describing how screenshots are recommended 
> to be taken.
>
> Existing screenshots should only be replaced when time allows it (for example when the 
> respective chapter or book is worked over).
>
> Do we need to add anything else?
>
> Are these options to vote on sufficient to consider the different opinions mentioned here?
>
> I'd like to wait for another 24 hours for comments and start the voting tomorrow.
>
> Best regards
>
> Bernhard
If you adopt this proposal no one using a Mac will be able to make screenshots for your 
manuals. Your documentation is already lacking in Mac specific content, don't make it worse. 
The current screenshots are very different from the appearance of LibreOffice on a Mac.

Larry
--
_________________________________
Larry I. Gusaas
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada
Website: http://larry-gusaas.com
"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." - Edgard Varese



--
Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+help@global.libreoffice.org
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted