Hi Jean, Bernhard, *all, On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 06:49:04 +1000 Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 06:02, Bernhard Dippold > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jean, all, > > > > sorry, Sigrid, you seem right: There is no chance to get a common agreement > > on how screenshots should look like in a reasonable time... sorry, I would have preferred to be wrong in this case. > > > > Jean Weber schrieb: > >> > >> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 13:50, Marc Paré<[email protected]> wrote: > >>> [...] > OK. I may have got mixed up about who said what. I now think we do not > have any disagreement about that. That's good to see. Thanks for clarifying Jean. > > > >> And while it may be desirable to have uniformity among > >> the documentation screenshots, I don't think it's a big deal that they > >> are not uniform. We can develop the uniformity as we update the docs > >> for other reasons. > > > > So you want to tell people to create the first set of screenshots with > > different themes and work on them in a second step again? > > I am talking about the screenshots that are already there. Replacing > them will be a lot of work and not IMO a high priority. When they need > to be replaced for other reasons, then the screenshots should be done > in the recommended theme if possible. I agree, that this is a reasonable approach. > >> > >> That said, I completely agree that having guidelines for documentation > >> screenshots is a good thing. Note: guidelines, not rules. Marketing is > >> a different matter: much more important there. > > > > We never discussed rules - even the branding guidelines are no rules (but > > they are highly recommended to use). > > I know. I just want to make sure everyone in this discussion understands that. Just for your information: the DE documentation team has voted for the Clearlooks theme with green2 as the colour to use. I'm not very happy with this choice, I would have preferred a "less noisy" colour with still a good contrast, but it was a majority voting for this. So, we're going to produce screenshots with this theme for our documentation - and if necessary, we will provide screenshots for the website too. > > > > > Every contributor can include the screenshots (s)he wants in any specific > > contribution. But if there is a help available to produce consistent > > screenshots, I'd like to be led to this help when I start to create > > screenshots. > > Agreed. I want this too. Indeed, and the DE documentation team has this now. ;) > > > > If you and the rest of the documentation team are as opposed to a consistent > > look-and-feel in the LibreOffice documentation as David Nelson, we don't > > need to discuss this topic any more or vote on it at all. > > I'm not opposed. IMO it's a good and desirable goal. Just as long as > everyone understands it's not a top priority, worth holding up > production to achieve. From latest discussions I now think that it is > clear that everyone understands that. > > > > > But if you think, a guideline ("we recommend ...") leading to similar > > screenshots in our docs would be a good thing, please let's define the > > theme, so it can be used on our wiki and we can end this discussion. > > Guidelines are good and important. I hope we can agree on some guidelines within the whole project soon. > Yes, guidelines are good. I am all for guidelines. I have given my > opinion on the desirable look of a theme for documentation, and I'll > be away for 2.5 weeks so I won't be able to create any more noise on > this subject. I hope it's decided by the time I get back. :-) :) I'm sure we'll manage, Jean. Sigrid -- 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
