Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-design] New templates contest

2014-12-23 Thread jonathon
On 22/12/14 14:27, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > I don't understand what's so country-specific in a template. Depends upon what the template is to be used for. The United States uses its own system of weights and measurements, even though it was one of the first countries to pass legislation le

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-design] New templates contest

2014-12-23 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 23 décembre 2014 à 20:12 +0100, Jean-Francois Nifenecker a écrit : > Hello Milan, > > Le 22/12/2014 15:27, Milan Bouchet-Valat a écrit : > > I don't understand what's so country-specific in a template. AFAIK MS > > Office does not ship different templates in the US and in Europe. Cannot >

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-design] New templates contest

2014-12-23 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Ah, OK. This may need some careful work by localization teams. not only. There are aesthetical and cultural points that you seem to ignore. *I* for one, wouldn't use *any* foreign template for a French use. Not because they are not translated, but because they don't fit the French culture. T

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-design] New templates contest

2014-12-23 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Hello Milan, Le 22/12/2014 15:27, Milan Bouchet-Valat a écrit : I don't understand what's so country-specific in a template. AFAIK MS Office does not ship different templates in the US and in Europe. Cannot templates be made mostly country-neutral if contributors are asked to avoid adding too na

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-design] New templates contest

2014-12-23 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Hi Charles, I guess you took my words way too personnally. Or I couldn't explain myself clearly enough. So let me rephrase it. Le 22/12/2014 15:27, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Yes, but as you know in French, "criticism is easy, action is more difficult". So I would have guessed you would hav

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-design] New templates contest

2014-12-23 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Hello Sophie & all, Le 22/12/2014 15:13, Sophie a écrit : so are you volunteering to write that manual and document the templates or are you only ranting on those who are currently trying and are doing something? of course not: it's up to the template maker to document his/her work. What I w