Hi :) The icon sets seem to be really easy to switch/skin and are getting updated by the design team anyway. Rare but great for an OpenSource project! I think that a simple disclaimer as Barbara has been doing is the best work-around. I guess it might be good to use an icon set that is not the default for OOo. However, i think OOo icons are copy-left'ed rather than copyrighted so it is not the same as the issue about screen-shots in Windows.
So, while getting the icons sets 'right' is a level of perfection that would be nice i think that it is unattainable and not really necessary. One work-around is to get creative and deliberately use a different icon set for each screen-shot on a page. The disclaimer should have a clickable link to the page about how to change the icon set and/or a page with examples of several different icon sets and/or the design teams page about icon sets. This would neatly cover any discrepancies and turn them into a bonus rather than a problem. Normal policy of aiming at consistency should be followed unless we agree to deliberately 'get creative'. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Hal Parker <halparke...@gmail.com> To: documentation@libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 14 February, 2011 6:03:18 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Icon differences On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Jean Hollis Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 15:05 +1000, Hal Parker wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Hal Parker <halparke...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > I'm going through the Writer Guide chapter on graphics, and I notice > that > > > Barbara has commented in several places about the icons in the file > being > > > different from the ones you see. The most likely cause is that the > options > > > are set to use the "automatic" set of icons, which varies with the > operating > > > system. This selection is found in Tools > Options > LibreOffice > > View. > > > > > > The OOo user guides use the "Galaxy (default)" set, and we should > probably > > > stick with that for the time being. > > > > > > Of course, some figures and icons in the OOo guides are in fact out of > date > > > and will need to be changed. > > > > > > > > Upon looking more closely at the chapter, I can see a lot more changed > icons > > than I first thought, even within the Galaxy set. And they have changed > in > > OOo also. My apologies, Barbara. > > > > Hal > > > > You guys are driving me nuts, finding things that need to be changed in > the OOo docs because we failed to notice them before. You're as good as > the translators that way. ;-) > > But seriously, thank you. > > --Jean > > While I'm going through the Writer Guide, I'm finding lots of things that also need to be changed in the Getting Started guide that I missed before in my enthusiasm to publish a book in time for the product release. When I finish working on Writer Guide chapters, I plan to fix up the Getting Started book. Probably the OOo Getting Started book needs similar changes. Hal -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
