Re: Screenshots and the removal of icons

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 17:11 +0200, Claude Paroz wrote:
> 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...

No doubt.  Distro deviations are always a difficulty for
the docs team.  In this case, though, I'd say that if all
the distros are patching this back to the old behavior,
we should probably just give up and switch back as well.

--
Shaun