Hi :) Well the Documentation Team selected a theme that is very similar to a theme used in Xp, like their silver one, because it gives the best contrast and readability. It's fairly clear that it's on gnu&linux tho (imo).
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Production#Sample_screenshots For Marketing and Websites Teams attention-grabbing colours, activity and excitement are crucial. High contrast and readability are very very low on their lists of requirements possibly even opposite to what will work well for them. The 3rd paragraph sets teams against each other (or ignore the SC) rather than encouraging them to do their best in their opposite directions. Branding consistently across the teams is NOT trivial! I don't envy them at all in this. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Christoph Noack <christ...@dogmatux.com> To: steering-discuss@documentfoundation.org Sent: Sat, 6 August, 2011 13:57:43 Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] decision on screenshots Hi all, Florian - thank you for this follow up :-) Am Samstag, den 06.08.2011, 11:26 +0100 schrieb Tom Davies: > Hi :) > I thought this issue had been settled with > "It is noted that several members of the SC acknowledge the existence of a >legal > > risk to display screenshots of LibreOffice on Windows, but the risk is deemed > low, therefore, while screenshots on GNU/Linux should be the default ones, > screenshots on Windows are also possible." The missing part, as David pointed out, was that only Windows has been covered. But we have also users (thus: marketing material and documentation) for Mac OS X users. However, there is one tiny thing missing (to me) in Florians draft, so I'd like to tweak it a bit. (I feel free to do so on the sc-discuss list, since I've been originally asked to summarize the status for an earlier meeting). [...] > From: Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org> [...] > == > Screenshots for documentation, website and marketing should preferably be > taken > > on Linux, but may also be taken on any other operating system. The Steering > Committee acknowledges that there is a small legal risk involved for >screenshots > > on non-free operating systems, but the risk is deemed low. > == > Does this reflect everyone's wishes? > > What I want to say is: > > 1. The preferred solution for screenshots is to do them with Linux, but any > other operating system is acceptable as well. The original issue (on the different mailing lists) also contained the "what visible desktop environment, what theming" should be used. Defining that is (in my opinion) up to the teams, so I'd like to ask the SC to encourage the community to find a rather consistent appearance. > 2. There is a small legal risk, but we doubt it is of practical relevance. Fully agreed. > Any native speaker who wants to improve the wording, feel free, but please do > not completely change the meaning. :-) The following two items have to be in > that statement. So, only the third paragraph added ... and GNU/Linux instead of Linux. == Screenshots for documentation, website and marketing should preferably be taken on GNU/Linux, but may also be taken on any other operating system. The Steering Committee acknowledges that there is a small legal risk involved for screenshots on non-free operating systems, but the risk is deemed low. The Steering Committee recommends a consistent visual appearance (e.g. theming) for the screenshots taken on the selected operating system. It is up to the LibreOffice community how to achieve that consistency. == Being also a non-native speaker (English), I'm happy if someone could proofread this as well. Thanks! > I'd like to proceed to voting on the statement soon. Hopefully today :-) Cheers, Christoph -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
