Hi all, On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 23:43 +0300, David Nelson wrote:
> 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. +1 > 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 > Actually I think some the Linux distros might enjoy unintentional free publicity from a screenshot. Depending on each contributer's set up there could be some hopefully only differences. -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- 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
