Hi all,
Hristo Simenov Hristov schrieb:
On 21.11.2006 16:32, Andras Timar wrote:
Clytie Siddall írta:
But currently, I'm more concerned about our relationship with our
community. I want to encourage participation, not knock it back,
so it's unfortunate that the first offer, this screenshot, is
rejected. I'm trying to think of some positive way to offset
that.
What do you think of integrating it in the Art Project's galleries?
Perhaps it could serve as Wallpaper, as personal splash screen or as
basis for other artwork.
Obviously the artist concerned put a lot of effort into it. I
want to get that effort into our project!
If there is a chance to get this effort out of the vi-Project into the
international project, this would be great for OpenOffice.org in
general. I know that it is hard for Vietnamese to communicate in groups,
where they don't feel at home, but the OOo Art Project is quite a small
group of people dedicated to artwork and design (and I've been told it
is the most friendly mailing list in the entire community). So if you
could convince the artist to subscribe to art@marketing.openoffice.org,
he (or she?) could join us in designing *official* artwork for
OpenOffice.org.
Perhaps the proposal might become the basis of OpenOffice.org 3 artwork
- who knows?
We have started to discuss the style of OOo3 and we'll go on with this
discussion. So if the artist joins the discussion, others might be
convinced ...
Hi Clytie,
Linux distros also change the splash screen. Novell do the same in
their builds. You can also change it, if you produce Vietnamese
builds yourself. Your localised splash screen will never be
integrated into the official sources, but it does not mean that you
cannot use it.
As André already mentioned (and linked to additional information), it is
quite important for OpenOffice.org to become more recognizable all over
the world.
Therefore our visual identity should be strengthened - and besides the
logo and the icons our splash screen is one of the graphical elements
people may recognize. Elements of the actual splash screen are used in
artwork and marketing materials. This is the right way IMHO.
Linux distros change the splash screen (and other parts of OOo) to show
that their builds are different from the communities builds. It's their
right to do so, but their visual identity is not our goal - we want that
as many people as possible recognize OpenOffice.org by the logo, parts
of the logo like the gulls, the splash screen or even elements of it
(like the blue-to-white gradient or the "wire gulls").
My question is why we can implement a code which gives apportunity if
there is a localized splash, to be used and put into the language
pack and to show only when this language is set in Options of OOo?
IMHO this code would not be hard to implement, but from my point of view
the only good reason to provide localized splash screens might be to
localize the additional information at the bottom "Build contributed
..." The overall impression of the splash screen should stay the same in
as many circumstances as possible.
I know that it is very simple to replace the splash, just have to
replace intro.bmp file with that we want, but here we speak for
language comunity. Also there can be an option does user want to use
localized splash or original one.
Is implementation the only problem or there is other one?
Did my reply answer your question? If not, don't hesitate to ask again.
Best regards
Bernhard
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