My theory is that having screenshots from a variety of o/s and/or themes is actually good because it shows that LibO runs on many systems and what you the user see on your screen may not be exactly what is in the book. That's probably a rationalisation, but as an excuse for not limiting too much the number of volunteers who can do screenshots we can use, I think it's a good excuse. ;-)
My only real concern is that colors not obscure the text on the screenshot and that they print well. Some themes do a reverse color for selections that makes the item very difficult to read in a screenshot. AFAIK we at LibO haven't actual set a specific theme and style. My suggestion was for something that would look similar on most common o/s, but it was never agreed on. Neither has any other proposal been agreed on. Sometimes I get the impression from a few people that they think the LibO Docs team should do things differently from OOo just because it's different, even when the method has worked well for the OOo Docs team. Jean On 05/06/2011, at 18:02, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) I prefer the Radiance theme in Ubuntu because it's clearer and light. > I > guess it does look a little like the Silver theme in Windows but it has nice > splashes of colour such as when selecting a block of text in most apps. > > I thought we had set a specific theme and style that was more a default > Ubuntu. > I really like a little variety but appreciate that in docs it's probably best > to > be consistent with what is already being used even if that has turned out to > be > different from agreements that i often misinterpret or remember wrongly > anyway. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Jean Weber <[email protected]> >> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sun, 5 June, 2011 9:11:16 >> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Impress Guide (Chapter 1) >> >> FWIW, I use a theme in Ubuntu that looks quite a bit like the old silver >> Windows XP theme. So some of the screenshots that look like they were taken >> on >> Windows may actually be those. It was chosen mainly because it is pale gray >> and >> therefore prints well and looks good in black and white as well as color >> (and >> doesn't use huge amounts of expensive color ink when printed in color). I >> don't >> recall if I put the theme files into Resources on Alfresco, but they are on >> the >> ODFAuthors website. If someone wants them, one of the people familiar with >> ODFAuthors should be able to help you. I don't think you need a login to get >> to >> them. >> >> Jean >> >> On 04/06/2011, at 20:10, David Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:03, ~*Low Song Chuan*~ <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>> The standard screenshot size and convention can be found at Alfresco >>>> under >> Company Home> English Content>Resources>LibO-style-guide.odt (page 5). It >> is >> written by Jean. >>>> >>>> The guide suggested that PNG be used and width of screenshot to be under >> 15cm (5.9 inches). >>> >>> OK, cool. So let's go with that then. Under Ubuntu, I'd suggest using >>> the default theme for Gnome/Ubuntu, but it's not a critical issue if >>> people are using Fedora, etc., and their shots look slightly >>> different. >>> >>> I guess the only other things to take into account would be as in the >>> Style Guide: prefer LibreOffice internal dialog boxes, prefer the >>> Galaxy icon theme, and so on... >>> >>> Anyone got any other comments/suggestions? >>> >>> -- >>> David Nelson >>> >>> -- >>> Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] >>> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >>> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ >>> 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/www/documentation/ >> 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/www/documentation/ > 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/www/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
