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[Kyle Nitzsche <kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some quick thoughts on Screenshots.

One issue is visual consistency.
 * Authors may have different themes and take shots at different DPI. So they 
don't look consistent.
 * As I understand it, ubuntu manual team developed quick shots which does 
this: creates a user with standard theme, sets DPI. Person then takes shots that 
are needed for the given locale.
 * the list of missing screenshots in ub-manual is auto generated based on 
different source 'tags'.

In my option, this sounds great but it should not remove from authors the 
requirement of taking initial screenshots: they should NOT leave them blank 
since this creates a broken book right off the bat with missing images. Also, 
there should never be any missing screenshots and authors shouldn't need to 
modify source tags.

It may be reasonable to work towards a dual approaches later. leverage quick 
shots for visually consistent screenshots. But for now, authors should add their 
own screen shots. We should have simple and clear instructions; Set your system 
to XYZ theme. Screenshots at XYZ DPI.

Another issue is where do the actual images live.
 * in the same branch as the content? All locales? this makes the content 
branch unnecessary large and slow to download.
 * one option is separate author images branches: draft-images that authors 
must put shots into. It is next to the project branch on the system. the build 
system looks there for images, but in a fall-back: first look in images-<locale> 
sibling branch, if not found, fall back to images-en, if not found, fall back to 
author branch: images-draft. I can implement this in doctemplate easily as needed.

Cheers,
Kyle






On 01/26/2011 10:42 AM, Rick Spencer wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 09:33 -0600, Belinda Lopez wrote:
> > Speaking of screenshots and images I think it's worth having the
> > images/screenshots locally instead of using the process used by the
> > manual team.  Any other thoughts on screenshots?
> Could someone explain our options for screenshots? Thanks.
>
> Cheers, Rick
>
>
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