Re: Urgent - Screenshots needed

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

Thanks, Jos!

Can you put them on the wiki?
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial/Posters

Thanks,

Stormy

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet gmail com> wrote:
> On Monday 11 October 2010 21:04:03 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > On Monday 11 October 2010 18:12:42 Brian Cameron wrote:
> > > One issue that I have noticed with screen shots taken in the past is
> > > that they tend to show off the way GNOME looks in a particular distro
> > > with distro branding, etc.  This is understandable since people taking
> > > screenshots would likely often overlook this as a concern.
> > >
> > > However, if we are going to put together some more formal screenshots
> > > to use going forward, then it seems that it would be nice to either:
> > >
> > > 1) Organize screenshots taken on a variety of distros so that we are
> > >
> > >     not seen as favoring one distro over another (even unintentionally).
> > >     This might be cool since we could show off that GNOME is widely
> > >     used across many distributions, but might be more work to organize.
> > >
> > > 2) Configure the desktop so that distro specific branding is removed
> > >
> > >     before taking the screenshots, so it has more of a vanilla (or
> > >     "unbranded") look.
> > >
> > >     If we are going to do this, then it would be useful to have some
> > >     guidelines about how to go about taking screenshots for use by
> > >     upstream GNOME.  Such guidelines could include infomration about how
> > >     to reset your desktop configuration to an approved neutral unbranded
> > >     state.  Or do such guidelines already exist somewhere?
> >
> > In openSUSE you can install either the openSUSE-branding packages or the
> > upstream-branding. That's how I made a few vanilla GNOME screenshots. By
> > tomorrow I'll have a space to put 'em and you'll get them. Will be just 3-4
> > but they might be usable for GNOME.org.
>
> I made some GNOME screenshots. Some are openSUSE style but a few are vanilla.
> I have added text over them saying something like "GNOME 2.30" which I don't
> think makes sense for the GNOME website. Luckily I have the originals so let
> me know if you want them by mail :D
>
> > > Brian
>
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