Re: [Usability] screenshot & recording desktop video

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 20:04 +0200, jeroen xs4all nl wrote:

> Here's what i've come up with so far:
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~jeroen/screenshots/Screenshot-Screenshot-2.png
> 
> I'm pretty happy with that. Obviously, the video parts would be
> insensitive until the user selects the "Record desktop video" radiobutton.
> The "take a screenshot of the desktop" would be the default option
> selected.

Cool.  You could probably even simplify it even further, something like:

http://www.iol.ie/~calum/screencap-basic.png
http://www.iol.ie/~calum/screencap-advanced.png

where the big toggle buttons at the top would have some
appropriately-cool-and-descriptive artwork on them :)  Although I agree
you might need to retain the instructions in the dialog about how to
stop recording (and perhaps also how to select a window, for window
capture mode), but only if you can't otherwise make it obvious enough
for the user to work it out themselves the first time they try it, which
should really be the goal for something this simple.

(I know we hadn't mentioned a scaling option before, but I was using
iPhoto last night and its 'export no larger than' option is pretty
useful for scaling photos as they're exported... and I'd certainly find
it useful for exporting otherwise-large screenshots too.  And indeed for
videos, but I guess to much post-processing would be involved to have it
listed as an option for those.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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