Hi :) Just thought people here might want to know about a developing situation at the BoD discussion list. They might relent or it might be a case of a relatively simple change (such as a bucket-fill). Anyway, since you are talking about visual components i thought it might be good to know.
Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Charles-H. Schulz < >Sent: Monday, 28 January 2013, 10:43 >Subject: [board-discuss] Splashscreen & Startscreen proposals for the 4.0 > >Hello, > >As the Design team has selected the startscreen and splashscreen for the >upcoming 4.0 release several members of the Board of Directors have felt >the choice was not acceptable for a variety of reasons (too white, too >simple, non-standard logo, not enough green...). > >In general it is not up to the BoD to decide on UX and designs. The >reactions to the choice of the graphical elements for the 4.0 were, >however, quite vocal. I would therefore like to ask the BoD to propose >an alternative choice (and vote on it ASAP), which would be to ship >LibreOffice 4.0 with a slightly modified 3.6.x Splashscreen and >StartCenter (the modifications being the inclusion of the number 4 on >them) and then let the Design team come up with a new design for the >rest of the 4.x branch. > >I realize that we're hijacking several processes here, but several of >the BoD members felt we had to come up with a solution. What's more, I'd >like to sincerely thank the Design team, among them Mirek and Stefan for >their relentless work and contributions; we hope that you will continue >to provide the LibreOffice project with your talent and passion. > >Best regards, >-- >Charles-H. Schulz >Co-Founder & Director, The Document Foundation, >Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany >Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts >Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint > > > > > > > -- 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
