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 <dbarisakk...@gmail.com>: > -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 LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
