Re: Pre announcing release notes to the press

[Ken VanDine <ken vandine org>]

I can have a vmware image done very easily, just building from the gnome
devel kit.  I do have a problem with the livecd right now, unionfs
related.  Not sure I will have time to sort that out this week, but
frankly the vmware image is by far the most popular.

--Ken

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 11:32 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> 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).
>