Tom I think you're talking about something different than Peter and I am, but it's too late at night for me to explain in more detail right now.
Jean On 01/09/2012, at 21:30, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > The icon sets and themes were carefully chosen to try to fit 2 criteria > 1. Something available on all platforms; Mac, Windows and Gnu&Linux (and > therefore probably Bsd too) > 2. High contrast for good quality printing. > > However, all this was last discussed such a long time ago it might be good to > think again. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > --- On Sat, 1/9/12, Peter Schofield <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Peter Schofield <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Change LO icon set shown in user > guides? > To: "Jean Weber" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, 1 September, 2012, 11:59 > > Hello Jean > > If Tango has become the default set of icons for LO3.6, then I think we > should change the user guides to reflect this. In my opinion most LO users > will not bother to change the settings of LO to show the Galaxy icon set and > it will be better to use screen shots showing the Tango icon set. > > Regards > > PeterS > > Peter Schofield > [email protected] > > > On 1 Sep 2012, at 12:02, Jean Weber wrote: > >> In our user guides, we've always used the "default" icon set (theme), >> which is Galaxy. On some operating systems, this default was different >> from the "automatic" icon set or theme. In recent Ubuntu installs, >> Galaxy wasn't even offered to users as a choice unless they knew how >> to get it from the software center. >> >> With LO 3.6, the "automatic" icon set is Tango on all three major o/s >> (Windows, Linux, Mac). This means that many (though not all) of the >> screenshots in our docs will not match what many users (especially new >> users) will see. >> >> Therefore it is probably time to change our user guides over to the >> new icon set and create new screenshots as needed. In many cases, we >> will need new screenshots anyway, because of other GUI changes. >> >> What do you think? Should we change to the Tango icon set at this >> point, or keep using the Galaxy set? >> >> Changing screenshots can be done either by the person making updates >> to the text, or by someone else. We prefer that screenshots NOT be >> done on Windows, so if you use Linux (preferred) or a Mac, you can be >> very helpful by working on images even if you don't want to work on >> the text. >> >> --Jean >> -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
