Subject: Re: Proposal
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 11:44:37 CST
At 12:36 AM 2/12/01 -0500, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>> In the interest of conformity and standardization I'd like to
>>recruit volunteers to take some up to date screenshots of each
>>platform and then arrange then similarly to what I've done here.
>>My idea is to build a table (ideally from the CVS screenshots
>>directory) with the following:
>> | GTK | Gnome | BeOS | Win | Photon
>>---------------------------------------------
>>PageSetup| <IMG>| <IMG> | <IMG>| <IMG>| <IMG>
>>...
>>
>>I'm doing this to make the differences between dialogs and
>>between platforms more evidemt as an attempt to clean up
>>some of these differences where they make sense.
>>
>>I've started with the following:
>>
>>http://staff.qnx.com/~thomasf/abiword/shots
>
>http://198.139.111.101/abiword/shots/
>
>for Gnome shots.
Cool! This looks like we're very close to having up-to-date content for two
platforms in the abi/shots/* tree -- qnx and unix/gnome. Now we just need
someone to do the same work for the following subtrees:
abi/shots/*/beos
abi/shots/*/unix (ie, GTK)
abi/shots/*/win
It gives me the shivers to imagine how close we are to being able to update
our website for the upcoming 0.9.0 release to showcase matching UIs for 5
supported platforms as outlined here:
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/01/February/0247.html
We're due to make a big stink about how cool 0.9.0 is, and this is a nice
way to lure in anyone who doesn't appreciate the rewards of our XP strategy.
But I'm getting (slightly) ahead of myself. As Thomas points out, the first
step is to *get* all of the current shots taken and identify all the
potential discrepancies to resolve.
>It'd be nice if you also included shots of the font dialog
>and the whole app too.
Yeah. Dom's shot reminds me that we may want 2 variants of the app
screenshot. I'd already posted to describe the compact shot needed for the
home page:
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/01/February/0246.html
However, it's also nice to have one which shows off all the toolbars, too.
Here, size matters less, although I'm not sure I'd go quite as big as Dom.
Paul
PS: This is also a gentle reminder that anyone making UI updates should
also get in the habit of also committing the relevant update(s) to the shots
tree.
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