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Re: Persona for firefox.

 

For firefox 3.6 or firefox 4?

Le lundi 17 janvier 2011 à 17:37 -0500, Sohail Mirza a écrit :

> Personas in the context of Firefox are lightweight themes, more
> specifically.  They do not require a browser restart to try them or
> apply them.  At http://www.getpersonas.com/ one can try out personas
> just by hovering over the preview image.
> 
> I've recently tried a few personas meant to coordinate with my Ubuntu
> theme (i.e. Ambiance, Radiance, Element), however I found in each case
> that I preferred Firefox's default, GTK theme-inherited appearance.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:45 AM, frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx
> <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>         On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 13:51, Stuart Langridge
>         <stuart.langridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         
>                 On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 10:19 +0000, Charline wrote:
>                 > On 14/01/11 10:05, Paul Sladen wrote:
>                 > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, [ISO-8859-1] K�vin PEIGNOT
>                 wrote:
>                 > > > integrate by default a personna in firefox,
>                 > > Hello Kevin, I had to Google for what a Firefox
>                 "persona" is, it
>                 > > appears to be a theme?  (Is that correct---I
>                 couldn't see a screenshot
>                 > > attached?).
>                 > A persona is a tool: It represents an archetype of
>                 users - a profile
>                 > of sort that combines a group of users who have a
>                 certain
>                 > characteristic in common.  This characteristic is
>                 generally a
>                 > behavioral one - can also be attitudinal. At best,
>                 personas are a
>                 > result of primary user research (interviews and
>                 observations of real
>                 > users).  They are used to help focus strategy and
>                 design efforts.
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 Charline,
>                 
>                 A persona is indeed that in most cases. However,
>                 Firefox has co-opted
>                 the term "persona" to mean a graphical theme for their
>                 browser. I, for
>                 example, am using the Ubuntu Ambience persona
>                 (http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/138995 ) to
>                 style Firefox 4.0
>                 to look like the rest of my Ubuntu desktop.
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         "Ambiance" that is, but the author of the theme is responsible
>         for the typo..
>         
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