On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 01:23 +0200, Bernhard Dippold wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> there have been lots of mail in this thread [1] about the advantages and
> disadvantaged of a recommendation for a consistent theme for screenshots
> covering documentation screenshots as well as marketing screenshots.
>
> During the discussion several people agreed on a proposal by Jean
> compromising between readability on greylevel printing and branding
> language compliance in colored online doc versions or marketing material.
>
> It is based on the Clearlooks theme (on GNOME, ports to KDE and Windows
> XP available too) with a definite font with weight and size (Liberation
> bold 11 pt for window titles) and adds a LibreOffice palette color
> (Libre Green 2) for highlighted areas like windows headers.
>
> If you want to establish a recommendation to use this modified theme for
> screenshots, please add "+1" here:
>
>
> Others want to propose a broad variety of different themes on
> screenshots in order to show the diversity of LibreOffice and it's
> possibility to be installed on different platforms in the documentation
> screenshots.
>
> They fear that new contributors might turn away when they find out, that
> there is a recommendation how to create screenshots for documentation
> and marketing.
>
> If you prefer a way without caring about recommendations, just creating
> the screenshots you like, please add your "+1" here:
+ 1 (best to use the system defaults for both LO and the OS)
>
> A second question has been raised by Marc inside the thread:
> He asked for a unified cursor style to be included in thee package.
>
> His proposal: Use a standardized cursor theme like "OpenZone white" for
> the screenshots and include this cursor in the theme for the colors.
>
> If you agree with him on the cursor/pointers, please sign here for a
> second time with "+1":
-1 (prefer system defaults)
>
> On the other hand I think that most platforms provide similar pointers
> and cursors, so this part doesn't need to be included in this voting.
> I'd propose a more inclusive wiki page including a recommendation to use
> a consistent cursor. "-1"
>
> So you have two votes - I hope you understand what I mean...
>
> Best regards
>
> Bernhard
>
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