Re: Urgent - Screenshots needed

[Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com>]

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?

Brian


On 10/11/10 10:52, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> I'm running a fairly recent jhbuild of gnome shell of which I can
> provide some screenshots on ubuntu 10.01.  I'll probably need to create
> a new account so I can put in a stock pic.  Also I believe Florian did
> some work on showing the new look on gnome-shell that I could try to merge.
>
> sri
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Jason Clinton <me jasonclinton com
> <mailto:me jasonclinton com>> wrote:
>
>     Fedora Rawhide + jhbuild GNOME Shell may be the best bet at getting
>     anything remotely close to what it will look like but the new GTK+
>     theme hasn't landed and the Shell revamp hasn't either.
>
>
>     On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:07, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org
>     <mailto:stormy gnome org>> wrote:
>
>         I put those that I know of here:
>         http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial/Posters
>
>         <http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial/Posters>But
>         we could really, really use some good screenshots if anyone has
>         the time to take some.
>
>         Stormy
>
>         On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org
>         <mailto:pcutler gnome org>> wrote:
>
>             Hi GNOME Marketing Team!
>
>             I received an email from the Desktop Summit 2011 team late
>             yesterday with an urgent request for a website they are
>             building targeting the press that is going up Wed.  From the
>             email:
>
>             Could you please help out with two-three screenshots
>             representative for what
>             GNOME software is about? One for desktop form factor, one
>             for handheld, one
>             for tablet, perhaps also some demo video embedddable from
>             vimeo, youtube and
>             similar? Thanks. Idea is to give journalists some
>             easy-to-pick nice
>             pictures/videos to use in their writings
>
>
>             Does anyone have any ideas - screenshots (preferably of
>             GNOME 3.0) - I think we want to focus on GNOME Shell as that
>             is what will be released by the time of the Desktop Summit
>             next summer.  Any videos on the GNOME Miro community?  I
>             think we can just focus on the desktop - we don't have a
>             formal handheld or tablet experience yet.
>
>             Thanks for the help - I'll help compile anything we find
>             tonight and forward it on.
>
>             Paul
>
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