Hi, though well-intentioned, I actually forgot to add the design and ux-advise lists to CC. Doing that now... Astron.
On 2 February 2012 19:22, Stefan Knorr (Astron) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Barış, Noel, > > First of all: Barış, wonderful that you took this up! > Secondly: I am adding the design and UX-advise lists to CC, to see if > we can get any help (artwork etc.) from there. > > So, here's an evaluation of your proposal: > * the two most important pieces of information are the version and the > product description, so these should be better highlighted > ** for now, it would help the most, if the (c) information were on a > new paragraph instead of directly after the product description > ** ideally, the version number should have a slightly larger font > ** the (c) notices could be in grey, as in Andrew's proposal, however, > most importantly they need to be shorter. > > So, here's a text proposal: > "Version 3.x > > LibreOffice is a free and open-source office suite developed by the > LibreOffice community together with The Document Foundation. > [LibreOffice website] [Credits] [License] > > LibreOffice is (c) 2000, 2012, the LibreOffice contributors and/or > their affiliates. All rights reserved. > Portions are (c) 2000, 2011 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. > > Build ID: xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx > " > > Note, IANAL and maybe we need some legal advice before we can shorten > the (c) text this much. The part that we recognise all community > members, I think, does not have to be pronounced so much, I think > TDF's actions speak louder than words here. > > Also, everything below the linkscould be greyed out. Further, centered > text looks pretty ugly, I think... I would like to cast a vote > pro-left aligned text. > > > 2012/2/1 Barış Akkurt <[email protected]>: >> -Changed the width of the about dialog to look better. > > Actually, I like(d) that, and wider artwork shouldn't be the problem > ... does anyone want to do any new artwork, preferably with the motif > in it? > > >> -added the definition of LibreOffice. "LibreOffice is a free and open source >> office suite developed by The Document Foundation." > > Good idea. > >> -Added the Document Foundation and Features links. > > Hm, I think it would be better to have the link to (new) features > description in the Help, of course, someone would need to look through > the release notes and then build a "What's New" type of document. > Additionally, people will probably be more interested in LibO than in > TDF, so that should be the homepage link instead (I think). Does that > make sense? > >> -Removed the OK button, just like Firefox. > > I think that's a really bad idea, as some weird-or-not window manager > might not give us a titlebar "X" (Gnome 3, *cough*) or a titlebar at > all and then people don't know how to get rid of the window. So, I'd > love to see a reincarnation of the "Close" button (I know, the caption > used to be "OK," but I think "Close" is a better fit as the About > dialogue doesn't actually change any values). > > >> I want to remove the build information and place only the major version info >> (like 3.5) but i wasn't sure. Maybe, it is a neccessary information. > > Yes, we might want to keep that for now, even though auto-generating > an ODT in the spirit of Mozilla's about:buildconfig might be a good > idea for the future. Anyway, my proposal moves that to the bottom. > > > Astron. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
