Hi, On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Jean Hollis Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > I still am not convinced that there is any real marketing or other > advantage to having coloured title bars and highlighting *in the user > guide illustrations* -- I don't see why they need to be the same, as the > purpose and use of the two are different, and the screenshots themselves > will be different (so no reuse advantage to us). > > To me having the user guide screenshots in gray DOES have advantages FOR > THE USERS: they are less likely to be distracted by the difference > beween whatever colours they see on their screen and the gray in the > screenshots; and the gray looks less "foreign" to Mac users.
I agree with what Jean says. Gray is a practical choice. But, also, after having reflected on this subject since past discussions on the documentation ML, I'm no longer totally convinced of the need to have total uniformity in screenshots, nor even of the need to have them all done under Linux rather than Windows. Providing that a little common sense is used, having some variety only emphasizes that LibreOffice runs on a large variety of platforms and under a wide variety of GUIs. In reality, it's important for us not to raise the entry barriers to contribution too high, because I notice that most people only contribute for a short period of time and then tend to fall away. The number of regular work contributors (as opposed to mailing list contributors) is quite low. We already use standardized chapter templates, and Jean and others have done great work on the documentation team contributor's guide (an on-going work). Do we really have to get too fussy about standardized themes used for taking screenshots? As we've already read in this thread, it can develop into quite a complicated issue, and I'd suggest we really have other more-urgent issues to deal with... Just my own 2 cents... -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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
