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

Le 2011-07-06 02:13, Larry Gusaas a écrit :
> 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

Perhaps we should look at it from another viewpoint,

"If you adopt this proposal people using GNOME/KDE will have a guide 
with which to take screenshots. This will now allow you time to turn 
your attention to the Mac and Windows platforms in order to work out a 
comparable theme."

We need to start somewhere, and it seems like the most logical place to 
start is with the Linux platform, this, due to the uncertainty over 
Windows "copyright" giberish and FUD.

Logically, again, the Mac users would be next in line to be served up 
with a LibreOffice theme. If the Mac people could take a look at the 
suggested guide criteria and come back with proposals, this would help 
out quite a bit. Many of us do not have Mac's to work out a theme, so we 
need to collect Mac users interested in working on this. You may be able 
to do like I did, I asked for help on the KDE forums (theme section). 
There must be somewhere one could ask on Mac forums for help as well. In 
the case of the Mac platform, it will take someone who owns a Mac to 
take the lead.

I personally, don't think it will be difficult to create the same on the 
Windows platform. We will probably have an easy time getting help with 
this from someone well versed in "theme creation".

Cheers

Marc


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