On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Jos Poortvliet <
jospoortvliet gmail com> wrote:
> 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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