Hi Carsten, I had originally thought about this (and was going to suggest it), but figured they would want the same information in all manuals (screenshots and such)--just in case someone decided to download more than one language and compare them. But, your idea would be a lot easier.
Have a great day:) Patrick. On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 21:52 +0200, Carsten Gerlach wrote: > Hello, > > > [ideas for realistic user in the ubuntu manual] > > Thanks for this good ideas. They show, that a "John Doe" or whoever is > welcome in the manual. The idea of "John's" realistic documents, email > and social network accounts is great, too. But I think this would be a > huge work to create, especially for the translators. So what do you > think about the following compromise? We use "John Doe" for the > general account and if there is a screenshot with some personal data > of "John", e.g. view to read/unread emails, gwibber messages, and so > on, the creator of the screenshot can use his own private settings for > that. Critical private information on that screenshots could be wiped > out (e.g. email adresses). > > In this way, we have no creation and translation effort of "John's" > syntetic but realistic documents, need not to share his account > information to all authors and translators, but we have a relaistic > look and feel of daily life situations on the screenshots. > > Greetings, Carsten > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
