On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 09:30 +0100, Clayton wrote: > So what can we do to ensure some measure of consistency in look/feel in > the screenshots? Is there a common theme used? Looking at it from the > Linux side, Gnome does not look anything like KDE, and if one person is > using some funky Compiz theme (and there are some pretty wild ones out > there) and the other is using the default Ubuntu/Gnome.. yet another is > using high contrast in openSUSE... you end up with a real mishmash of > screenshots, resolutions, quality and so on. > > This is something I've noticed in a few of the UG chapters - quality of > the screencaps for example. Some are very crisp and clean, others are > badly pixelated because the person edited the photo and reduced the > size/DPS. > > There might be some value in setting out some explicit guidelines for > taking screenshots. > > Something like: > If you use Linux then... (Gnome/DKE/LXDE etc, desktop colors, themes > used etc) > If you use WindowsXP/7, then... (desktop colors, themes used etc) > If you use OSX, then... (desktop colors, themes used etc) > so that at least from each OS there is some measure of quality in what > screenshots are provided.
Michele Zarri and I developed some guidelines, although they don't cover as comprehensive a list of o/s. I'll look for them and make a more explicit link; then we can work on expanding them to include more of the quality issues as well as o/s themes/colours. --Jean -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] with Subject: help
