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

Hi Larry,

Larry Gusaas schrieb:
> [...] 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.

If You don't feel part of this community, You will not be able to be 
heard as relevant member of this community and Your proposals will just 
be taken as information by one single individual.

LibreOffice is a multi-platform office-suite that integrates quite well 
in different operating systems and distributions.

It's always been a challenge to find the right balance between adoption 
of OS related UI consistency and our branding with it's interest in 
platform-independent consistency of our product.

I'm sure that this question will be handled here or on the marketing 
list every now and then as Mac users are known for their straightforward 
commitment to the look-and-feel of their computer.

I can't tell you now what will happen in future, but as 
platform-independency is considered very important by a large part of 
the community, I don't think that the "Mac only" argument will be 
supported by the multitude of the active contributors.

Documentation is specific in some areas and less specific in others.
If Mac only related topics should be shown, I would have recommended to 
take screenshots on Mac with a theme, Mac users will take as "their" UI 
on first sight. I'm quite sure that there would be possibilities to 
modify the theme slightly (adding a green shine or something similar).

But as Alex (as one of our legal experts) already pointed out, it seems 
that Mac screenshots might be as risky as Windows theme screenshots [1]. 
We should include these information in a dedicated wiki page collecting 
all the research results.

Best regards

Bernhard

[1]: http://go.mail-archive.com/PLA-icmGIsEVIJDmJwEwQbhcKa4=

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