Re: [Usability] Re: Screenshots as videos

[Karim Nassar <karim nassar nau edu>]

Shaun,

I agree with all points you have made, but after all this time I am
unclear what *changes* you are proposing (now, as opposed to first
post). Could you please clarify?

Thanks,
-- 
Karim Nassar <karim nassar acm org>


PS: FWIW, Ubuntu 5.04 on PPC with external keyboard: printscrn key
doesn't work. Likely this is due to the powerbook keyboard not having a
printscrn key.

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 17:36 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> I'm going to reply en-mass to a number of points.  For people with
> threaded mail clients, this will appear as a reply to Alan's post,
> but it's not just directed at Alan.
> 
> 1) My proposal for a seperate dialog for the screenshot utility
> was independant of whether it should be able to take videos.
> I really do think it's the right thing to do.  I makes all the
> functionality of the tool exposed in the UI.  That means it can
> be used under more circumstances (my crazy xnest usage), and
> everything is more discoverable.
> 
> 2) Just to reiterate, Printscreen and Alt+Printscreen should
> continue to do exactly what they do now.
> 
> 3) Though I didn't say so before, I think we should bury the
> screenshot tool under Accessories or something.  But that's
> not really relevant to the rest of my email.
> 
> 4) I don't have a problem with *short* hints in the interface,
> and I *am* the documentation team.  I would be concerned about
> long narratives, but a one-line italicized tip is cool in my
> book.  Mind you, I don't think we should go adding such tips
> all over every interface.  A dialog of this sort is different
> from, say, a Nautilus window, from my point of view.
> 
> 5) If the tool got video recording, it should absolutely be
> renamed in the interface.  Like "Screen Capture Tool".
> 
> 6) I don't necessarily think that screenshots and screen videos
> are that different from a user's perspective.  I think if we had
> a "Screen Capture Tool" menu item, people would be able to find
> that.  But that's just a guess.  I'm open to being proven wrong
> with some user testing.  The only question that's relevant is
> whether it makes sense to a user, not whether it's easy from
> an implementation standpoint.
> 
> 7) Don't like Point 6?  Fine and dandy.  I'm not going to push
> it too hard.  But I stand firmly behind Point 1.
> 
> 8) I remember somebody saying something once about using fancy
> new X capabilities to do a quick shutter animation over the
> desktop or window.  Make it fast enough to be unobtrusive, and
> maybe mostly transparent, and I will consider the implementor
> of said eye candy to be a deity.
> 
> --
> Shaun
> 
> 
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