On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 18:18 +0200, Willem Ferguson wrote: > On 24/12/2013 17:11, Dirk Hohndel wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 09:53 +0200, Willem Ferguson wrote: > >> It is much better if the image of the main Suburface screen also shows > >> the main menu. Prev image did not show that. This does. > > I am sorely tempted to replace all of the Ubuntu screenshots with > > something from a KDE desktop (which will likely give us the best look > > and feel). Having the menu ABOVE the window border just looks weird. > A few years ago I was involved with Amarok, pretty good audio/music play > and management software that I still use. But in a certain sense this > was everything that open source software should NOT be about: a > religious belief in KDE and a total rejection of Gnome, and a split into > 2 separate programs, currently named Amarok and Clementine because of > disagreement in the Amarok community. So my personal experience with KDE > has been rather negative.
There are lots of examples for bad behavior between "competing" projects. > If I do it in Gnome, would it be ok? I m not likely to get it done in > time for 4.01, partly because I will be out of town for the majority of > the next 3 weeks. Its not just a matter of cut and paste. Quite a few > need editing or adjustment in Gimp to get the contrast right or to see > that the frames are delineated absolutely correctly and also in several > cases 2 or 3 images need to be merged into one single image. So I plan > to do the figures while I am on travels but I will only submit them > around Jan 23rd. Does this sound ok? Certainly. And yes, Gnome is fine. That's what I use :-) I simply went by the fact that a Qt application is likely to look best under KDE. I have taken the picture that you submitted and for 4.0.1 we'll use things as they are, otherwise. Thanks /D > > Mac and Ubuntu do it this way, Windows and all other Linux do it the > > more traditional way (which reduces mouse movement unless you are in > > full screen, anyway). > > > > But then again - you are doing a great job with the manual, so I don't > > think messing with that would be a smart move on my part... > > > > So any chance you'd be interested in installing openSUSE in a VM and do > > the screenshots there? > > > > :-) > > > > /D > > > > > _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@hohndel.org http://lists.hohndel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
