Re: Pre announcing release notes to the press

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:19:35AM +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> Olav Vitters wrote:
> > To get as much press releases as possible, I'd appreciate if someone
> > with lots of press contacts could already share the 2.22 release notes
> > to the press:
> >   http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.22/
> > (this used to be password protected -- I've removed that)
> 
> Also: I've been writing an article about the release for a French
> magazine, and I'd really like some screenshots. Is there any
> Xen/KVM/VMWare/LiveCD image flying around somewhere that I could use to
> do that?

Ken: Do you have some early GNOME 2.22 cd's ready?

Dave: The release notes also contain a few screenshots (already in
French), but those of course might not fit your purpose.

When I made some screenshots (only ~2.. andreasn did a lot), I used
xnest (called something different, but I can only recall xnest). That
new one support compositing. The metacity compositing really slows down
workspace switching (to terminals.. driver bug or something). However,
works well within such a xnest. The xnest allows you to do something
like:
1. Enable focus follows mouse
2. Press alt-tab in the xnest (make sure that is not the same shortcut
as for your main session:)
3. Move mouse out of the xnest window to something else
4. Make screenshot

Now you'll have a nice screenshot of alt-tab (which looks much better
under 2.22 if you have compositing enabled). Launchers (buttons on the
panel) look much better with compositing as well, but that is an
animation.

For screenshots you can either just make a screenshot of the window
itself, or a screenshot of the whole window and cropping (while still
including the background image). I prefer the last one. Make sure the
background image reflects the default though (green image, see the
release notes).

-- 
Regards,
Olav