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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