Re: Urgent - Screenshots needed



On Monday 18 October 2010 17:43:03 Stormy Peters wrote:
> Thanks, Jos!
> 
> Can you put them on the wiki?
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingMaterial/Posters

Done. Sorry, it took me a while - busy busy :D

I only uploaded the three I made with the upstream GNOME artwork, I could 
upload the openSUSE ones but - they're openSUSE branded so I guess that 
wouldn't be a good idea.

> Thanks,
> 
> Stormy
> 
> 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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