Re: Screenshots and the removal of icons

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le lundi 20 juillet 2009 à 09:55 -0500, Shaun McCance a écrit :
> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 12:11 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I am a bit slow on this one but I just realised the removal of
> > icons[1,2] means every screenshots would have to be taken anew;
> > is the effort worth it ?
> > 
> > Is some coordination on this possible ?
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >         Frederic
> > 
> > [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583352
> > [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557469
> 
> Frederic, thanks for bringing this to our attention.  This
> change certainly has a big impact on screenshots.  I wish
> the docs team had been notified earlier.
> 
> While it does create an obvious inconsistency between the
> screenshots and the interface, I think it's not something
> that's like to cause confusion.  Annoyance, yes, but not
> confusion.  Given that and given our current efforts in
> redoing all of our help, I don't think an effort to redo
> all the screenshots en masse is worthwhile.
> 
> Writers, please be aware of this change and make sure all
> new screenshots are using the correct settings.

It would be interesting to see how distros manage this change. If most
of them continue to activate icons by default, i don't see the point in
updating our screenshots. Is it really better to stick with vanilla
GNOME and divert from what most users actually see?
Wait and see...

Claude