Hi :) I think Apple are a lot less protective of screen-shots of their DE. It's all based on FreeBsd anyway! However they do put a LOT of work into creating a very distinctive style so it's possible they are worse than MS are reputed to be.
Gnu&Linux distros are likely to be more sensible and see it as free advertising. I think we should aim at being consistent for now for new screen-shots, because we have excellent people such as Jaimon that are able to focus on doing screen-shots for people that haven't got the agreed themes. This means some people can focus on the words without having to worry about side-issues. After the Design Team arrive at a conclusion and after Jean gets back i think that would be a better time to discuss screen-shots in future releases of documentation. Haphazard and ill-considered differences will detract from our documentation and there is no need for it when we have a good system for producing higher quality results. Jaimon & Jean have put a lot of work into this. Please, lets not spoil it for them now! At the moment the screen-shots seem more on a level that competes with Apple's aim of high quality artistic simplicity & skill. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: David Nelson <li...@traduction.biz> To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org; des...@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 7 July, 2011 5:59:38 Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Screenshots for LibreOffice documentation Hi Jay, *, On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:26 AM, planas <jsloz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unless someone is willing to spend the time and money to properly > research the US legal issues, the safest course is avoid any chance of > putting us into a possible legal crosshairs. I have neither. The problem > is that no one has come forward who is US attorney and knowledgeable on > software related issues to advise us. MS could consider LO as a direct > competitor to MSO and thus would look for our legal blunders committed > out of ignorance of US law. > > It may be more tedious for us to make sure our screenshots do not show > anything that would imply a Windows OS but it is safer. I doubt any > Linux distro would be upset if their desktop was identifiable in one of > our screenshots. In fact a subtle plug could made by saying all the > screenshots were made on various Linux distros. Many Windows users think > we are command line using dinosaurs and would be surprised to see a > vaguely familiar desktop. Well, if one *were* to accept that the risk might possibly exist in the US, I somehow *feel* that Microsoft would be much less likely to succeed in such hypothetical action in European courts. Also, certainly in Europe, Microsoft would be likely to attract loud criticism and incite hostile activism in doing so. But, even if one were to avoid Windows screenshots to the greatest extent possible (it being difficult to produce good Windows installation guides - for example - without taking screenshots under Windows), I still would not like to see the English docs team and website team taking its screenshots purely under Linux/Unix. What about the Macintosh platform? I'd certainly like to encourage more involvement from Mac users. Also, in response to a conversation taking place currently on the Design mailing list (the which list I'm CC'ing), it's my personal feeling that it is not especially beneficial to ensure that all screenshots look identical (in terms of the theme used). Nor do I personally feel it's particularly beneficial to ensure that all screenshots be taken using a theme based on colors from the LibreOffice Design/Marketing pallet. An English documentation contributor's guide has been developed with rational recommendations for the taking of screenshots, and I think it largely addresses the issues that really matter in terms of their usability/suitability. However, I feel that we should make it as easy as possible for new English docs and website contributors to get involved, and not set-up unnecessary requirements in terms of software used and GUI environment. And I also feel we should *celebrate* the possible diversity of OS and GUI for running LibreOffice, and need not shun variety of colors and themes in screenshots either for English LibreOffice documentation or for LibreOffice websites. Anyway, this is just to make clear my own POV on the subject one final time. Thanks for reading, if you did. -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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