Most of the screenshots are in the silver theme. Only a subset are something else. IMO at this point the best way forward for 3.4 is to update using that theme when updated pix are needed. 3.4.2 is out and live; let's get the updates done ASAP, so we're not still mucking around with them when the next release hits us.
At the same time we can consider what to do for a later (major) release, which is IMO a better time to be changing the "look" in any major way. More comments below. On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 15:51 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: > For screen-shots the vast majority of the docs team back then decided to try > to > be consistent but a couple of us quite liked the idea of using a variety of > themes. It would look messy and 'unprofessional' unless done in a structured > artistic way (very time consuming) and anyway the rest of the team was > against > the idea. The decision to be consistent wasn't agreed by consensus but was a > vast majority which is cool :) I don't know who else "quite liked the idea of using a variety of themes". *I* certainly didn't; I jokingly said it might have its merits, but the only reason I've supported not spending the time to deliberately change all the pix to a common theme is pragmatic: lack of time and people to do it, for no real advantage to users. > We settled on one theme but then Jean found an even better one that looked > almost identical on all distros and even in Windows for the odd screen-shots > needed there. So the switch to the "Ubuntu XP-Silver" theme made sense. You have your timeline a bit mixed up. The silver theme was the original theme used in the OOo docs (with a few odd pix taken by other people, either on Windows or on Linux using a variety of other themes) and was not changed during the initial rebranding to LibO. The suggestion to use a different theme came while I was offline for several days, but by then several people had already started redoing Windows pix using one of the Ubuntu themes that didn't reproduce well in grayscale, so I nagged about it. > Should we discuss this again and perhaps select different theme(s) for 3.4 or > can we keep going with what was agreed for 3.3.x? As mentioned at the top of this note, let's stick with what we're doing for now. > I'm happy either way but i > had to fight hard in steering-discuss for the documentation team's decision > evenUbuntu > tho i had originally been against it. David had a similar experience in the > Branding lists & then steering-discuss too. I'm very glad you two did that. Thanks! > However, if the team wants to make the 3.4.x series documentation > deliberately > different from the 3.3.x then a few suggestions about now would be great. Please team, NO! Discuss for a future release, but NOT for this one. > I have a really bad feeling that i might have "beaten people into > submission", > or forced them into doing something they hate. So i would really appreciate > feedback from other members of the team even if that confirms my fears. At the moment we're on the track that I recommended all along, so no complaints from me. ;-) --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
