How much of another distro will really be visible in a screenshot, though? I feel like most people would just say, "Hey, that's a cool looking theme..." and move on.
-- Christopher Lee Executive Director Champion Debate On Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 10:55 PM, planas wrote: > 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] > > (mailto:[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] (mailto:[email protected]) > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > (mailto:[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 -- 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
