Re: Settings for screenshots - detail responses

["Eugene O'Connor" <eugene oconnor sun com>]

Shaun, 

I'm going to reply in two messages to try to keep this discussion clear.
This messages responds to the details you comment on below, the next
message will be a more general response.

Eugene


Shaun McCance wrote:
> 
[snip]
> > Fonts:
> >    Application font: sans 10
> >    Desktop font: sans 12
> >    Window title font: sans 10
> >    Terminal font: sans 12
> >    Font Rendering: Best shapes
> 
> Are these the Bitstream fonts?  I really think we should consider them
> to be the default Gnome fonts.  They're beautiful, and they're released
> under a very good license.
> 
> And your terminal font isn't monospace?

Well, they're just the settings that I happen to have at the moment. I
meant them just as a starting point. The fonts above should be replaced
by whatever the plain GNOME default settings are.

> 
> > Menus and Toolbars:
> >    Button labels: Text Below Icons
> >    Toolbars can be detached and moved around: Not relevant to
> > screenshots
> 
> Sure it's relevant.  It's the difference between whether or not your
> toolbar has the little drag handle, which will show up in screenshots.
> It's probably not all that important.

Ah yes I see, you're right, it is relevant.

[snip]

> 
> > Window frame buttons: If we agree a window manager and theme for
> > screenshots, this is not an issue.
> 
> Sure it is.  With Metacity, the theme does not specify the layout of the
> buttons, only how they look.  With any theme, I can have my buttons laid
> out Windows-style, Mac-style, or however else I like.

How do you do that with Metacity? I've looked at the following themes
and they all have the same number of buttons, and button ordering: Crux,
Grand Canyon, High Contrast, High Contrast Inverse, Large Print, Mist,
Ocean Dream, Simple, Smokey Blue, Traditional.

> 
> > Screen resolution: I'm not sure if it is practical to specify a
> > resolution for people to use.
> 
> Yes, you're probably right.  Of course, screen resolution shouldn't
> matter to the vast majority of screenshots, so it doesn't matter much
> anyway.
> 
> --
> Shaun