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[Ryan Macnish <nisshh.ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok,

the server is Quickshot Server <http://flan.uguu.ca:5000/> <- there

You wont be able to access it though, you will need to ask a user called
'flan' in #ubuntu-manual if you want access, currently i do have access.

If you want a screenshot in a certain place in one of your chapters, use
this placeholder graphic command:

\screenshotTODO{description of the screenshot}

That command will add a placeholder graphic when make is run, eventually,
that will be replaced with some code to show the screenshot instead.

When i said only english, i meant if you take the screenshot manually it
will most likely be in english (assuming thats your current locale), BUT, if
you take it with Quickshot, it can be easily localized. The reason we need
to hold off about taking screenshots is because UI freeze in Ubuntu is very
late in the cycle, and changes seem to happen to the UI unexpectedly. (we
had the same problem with the desktop manual last cycle).

Ryan Macnish

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Kyle Nitzsche
<kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  Howdy,
>
>
> On 01/03/2011 03:33 PM, Ryan Macnish wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
>  Screenshots will be taken with an app called Quickshot (search for it on
> launchpad) which is used in the desktop manual, once a screenshot is taken,
> it is uploaded to the server
>
> Which server?
>
>  (i have already sorted this out).
>
>  Please DO NOT put screenshots taken manually into the branch, a) they
> will be replaced with the ones taken with quickshot
>
> So what, exactly, is an author's responsibility when creating content that
> includes a screenshot(s)?
>
>  and b) they will most likely only be english, anything taken with
> Quickshot can be localized.
>
>  If the guide is offered in languages other than English (a consensus
> requirement, I think), I think the screenshots should be as well, else it
> would just look incomplete. This implies managing a list of target
> languages, and a work effort to get localized screenshots when the time is
> ripe. Is this underway? (Perhaps a smallish list of target languages for
> 1.0, to grow later...?)
>
> Cheers,
> Kyle
>
>  Screenshots is something for us to focus on later in the cycle.
>
>  Ryan Macnish
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:18 AM, Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Hey Kyle,
>>
>> If it were me id put screenshots in another branch just so we could have
>> a looser group of people to add to it.
>>
>> I thought it wouldnt be localized for the first release and I dont know
>> if it would be all that helpful to have it localized at all since
>> development is dominated by the English language.
>>
>> We should have it consistent with the ubuntu design guidelines.
>>
>> I wouldn't expect that it would be done in the same way the
>> ubuntu-manual is done.
>>
>> --fagan
>>
>> On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 15:10 -0500, Kyle Nitzsche wrote:
>> > Hi Belinda et al.,
>> >
>> > Just wondering about the the plan for screenshots.
>> >
>> > Should authors be adding them to trunk, and if so where/how?
>> >
>> > Will the guide support localized ones on first release (how)?
>> >
>> > Will they be made consistent (same resolution, theme, etc.)
>> >
>> > Will the guide use ubuntu-manual's approach for this?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Kyle
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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