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[Juliano <julianofischer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi James,
could you explain me: are the screenshots from exactly what?

Juliano Fischer Naves
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2014-03-29 10:35 GMT-04:00 James Vorderbruggen <jamesvorder@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Blueprint changed by James Vorderbruggen:
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> Whiteboard changed:
>   [inivanoff1] Yes, the Kubuntu team has done some nice work here. Okay,
> let's do it.
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>   [jamesvorder] Kubuntu really did a nice job, but I think the one
> question that's holding me back at this point is this: "What IS new for
> 14.04?"  Should we be asking the development team what their biggest
> triumphs for this cycle were?  Otherwise, should we be asking testers?
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>   [amjjawad] How about this?
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>   http://ubuntugnome.org/lts-status/
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>   Is this enough 'what is new' for Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 :D
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>   Yes, we need to ask the developers and/or packaging Team for their input
>   but the page should be ready and the section which packaging and
>   developers team will update will be left empty for them :)
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>   If this is not yet clear, please let me know!
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>   [inivanoff1] I was thinking to add some images (pictures) of the
> software applications included in 14.04 LTS (how the Kubuntu team has done
> in their release notes). For example, we can add a Firefox logo with
> "float: left" and on the right there can be some heading "Firefox Web
> Browser (version)" and 1-2 sentences representing the browser. What do you
> think?
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>   [jamesvorder] I love that idea.  In fact, I installed the testing
> version of 14.04 today so that I could get some screenshots of the new
> version of GNOME in action.
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>   [amjjawad] Thanks a lot for the work so far, guys but the screenshots
>   are very very small :( I can't see anything at all. This is not what I
>   had in mind. We need clear and reasonable size screenshots. 640x480 is
>   the minimum and 800x600 is the maximum. The point is we need to show our
>   system to the world. The current ones are too small :(
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>   We have 3 weeks to the final release so we need to get this done before
>   that and I trust we can :)
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>   Thank you!
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>   [inivanoff1] Ali, I know that the images are too small. I wrote to you
> in Facebook, but I'm not sure if you have seen the message. I was just
> testing how the images will look and that's not the final version of the
> release notes. Ali, James, I want your opinion for something: what do you
> prefer - icons of the apps or screenshots of the apps' window? Maybe
> screenshots with the apps' window will be better because it will show what
> the app really is. And this was really some testing by myself because the
> page is a draft. Ali, thank you for your opinion here, I will take your
> notes and I will add bigger images.
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>   [jamesvoder] We should definitely go with screenshots that include the
>   window.  This will both show a more realistic picture of the new
>   release, and show off GNOME 13.10's new and super attractive window
>   bordering technique.
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> + UPDATE: My laptop i much to slow to run a VM with any kind of acceptable
> speed, so can someone else get the screenshots? If you don't want to crop
> or scale them or whatever, just email them to me and I can contribute there.
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