The icons Tom lists is part of the "theme" set created by the LO
server/web-site team, and was copied for the NA-DVD web pages to show
what the MIME type of the file linked. Sometimes it does not work
correctly, and sometimes the system causes problems during page
editing. BUT, it is a nice touch that the TDF/LO web site developers
created in the CSS system for the page theme.
I am working on the 3.5.x documentation page so it works well for me and
my potential DVD and web site users. I really need to have some good
column indications that help with showing which links are for which
version of the documents.
As for the colors, well I chose the most least-offensive ones without
going deal into custom color options in Kompozer the WYSIWYG HTML editor
which I use as my default web page editing software on Ubuntu/Windows.
It is free and sometimes you see an update to it.
Later I might change the colors to the "official" colors of the LO
project as listed in one of the LO marketing pages.
To be honest, it would be nice to see the LO documentation wiki page
having some way to separate the "columns" for the 3.3.x, 3.4.x, and the
3.5.x line documents. What will happen when you add a forth column for
the 3.6.x docs? For me I will just add another color column and remove
the 3.3.x one when all for the chapters of the 3.4 line is filled in.
Then will remove the 3.4 column when all of the 3.5 doc chapters are
filled in.
The "-2d" part of the documentation page is for the fact that this is a
work in progress and not the default documentation page, YET. But that
will come soon, as I work out a few things in the editing process this
week, as I have the time.
On 06/10/2012 02:57 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
I really like this page created by Tim of Kracked-Press fame for the
North American Dvd Project.
http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/documentation-2d.html
I particularly like the little Odt icons and the back-ground
colour-coding.
On our current wiki-page we use colour-coded backgrounds too but it
grew organically and i am not sure the colour choices are still relevant.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
Green was originally just to show that you had completed those
chapters when the team was racing to complete 3.3.x guides. The tan
colour was taken from other wiki-pages that looked quite attractive.
The tan seemed to go well with that particular shade of green.
My thought for the official page
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/
would be to have 1 column instead of 3 but it would be different
colours for different guides. At the moment the Calc Guide can only
show the 3.3.x
At the moment i think the official page looks good because it's very
simple and avoids confusing people. I'm not sure we should offer
separate pages there because that does make things much more confusing
for people.
My proposal for copying Tim's NA Dvd page does assume that we want to
show individual chapters but now i am not so sure we do.
Regards from
Tom :)
--- On *Sun, 10/6/12, Tim Lungstrom /<[email protected]>/* wrote:
From: Tim Lungstrom <[email protected]>
Subject: tell me what you think of this documentation page?
To: [email protected], "Tom Davies" <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, 10 June, 2012, 19:10
Here is an idea for the NA-DVD documentation page.
This format sure makes it easy for you to know which version the
files are for.
http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/documentation-2d.html
The colors do make the different version stand out.
I also added my "modified" PDF files of the New Features and Fixes
pages, to the documentation page.
I will be tweaking this page before It goes as the actual
online/DVD documentation page.
When I get more documents for the 3.4/3.5 lines, I will create a
version 2 for the 3.5.4 DVD.
I am waiting now for Erich to get the 3.5.4 .iso file on the main
servers and add the 3.5.4 ISO page to the list, since it only has:
debian-repo - Recommended
3.5.3
3.4.6
listed on that page http://www.libreoffice.org/download/?type=box
I have no idea why the "debian-repo" is shown, since I sure would
not want to download all the files listed on that page separately
and then go from there for the install.
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