Hi LibO Designers,
Sorry for a second email already. ;-)
I decided to send out a list of potential template categories that Kevin and
I would use to guide our development of the default LibO templates. I
wasn't sure how to get started so I thought about use cases for Impress and
then created potential template categories as follows (with design concepts
in parenthesizes):
*Academic templates:*
- Architecture/Engineering (I-beam or similar structural element)
- Biology/Chemistry (chemical symbol or stylized chemical model)
- Social Sciences (one template as a sociology image)
- *Economics could overlap with Business template and Geography could
overlap with travel*
- Performing arts
- History
*Business Templates:*
- Business logo oriented theme (could include directions in theme to
substitute a company logo for a placeholder within the master)
- Motivational: (Stylized human reaching for star)
*Leisure & home Templates:
* - Photobooks ("bound book" look)
- Weddings or other life-events
- Sports (maybe a Futbol theme as it is the most popular sport
internationally)
*Nature and Travel Templates:*
- Seasonal (perhaps a simple one for each season)
- Nature and animals
- Travel (Famous locations or a stylized map/compass)
*General Templates:*
- Solid color (currently available in LibO, so we should evaluate which
ones we want to keep)
- High contrast (Simple black on white or similar)
- *Right-to-left language templates:* exs: Arabic, Hebrew
- *Top-to-bottom language Templates:* exs: Chinese
Please provide feedback or direction as Kevin and I move forward on
developing a few templates. Thanks!
Cheers,
Jaron
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Jaron Kuppers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi LibO Designers,
>
> Quick question... Is anyone familiar with the following:
> - Right-to-left language templates (ex: Arabic, Hebrew)
> - Top-to-bottom language templates (ex: Chinese)
>
> I feel like it would be nice if we supported those with at least one
> general use template for each language direction. What do people think? I
> am personally completely unfamiliar with top-to-bottom languages in the
> context of presentations.
>
> Cheers,
> Jaron
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Kevin Soviero <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Alright, How about we carve template design up into sections, one (or
>> more) for each of us...
>>
>> For example, I am good at making the background (not just cause its easy
>> ;)), and I can coordinate colors. We need someone to do the technical stuff
>> (title placement, etc...) , and we need to come up with the subjects to base
>> the templates on. Your list is a very good start though...
>>
>> Any other jobs you can think of?
>>
>>
>> On 01/31/2011 08:43 PM, Paulo José wrote:
>>
>>> It's a great idea! I think some steps to start this should be:
>>> 1. Choose some main topics to cover with the templates, for all types of
>>> presentation: school, enterprise, marketing...
>>> 2. Look for the real presentations in each topics. There are many sites
>>> of slide sharing, when you can find the most rated presentations. I gives
>>> the feeling of what is needed to achieve in each template.
>>> 3. Work hard to create the best templates in a office suite ever! :D
>>>
>>> Count with me,
>>> ~Paulo
>>>
>>> I ever start with the Ubuntu one... :P
>>>
>>> On 31-01-2011 01:45, Kevin Soviero wrote:
>>>
>>>> As I am sure most of you have noticed by now, the default set of
>>>> templates from OOo Impress is terrible. I was wondering if I were to make
>>>> a
>>>> set (lets say 10 - 20) of really high quality templates for Impress, if we
>>>> could get them included by default?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> Kevin Soviero
>> Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> Phone: (512) 672-9641
>>
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