Re: reference images of dialogs

Daniel Berlin (db003g@mail.rochester.edu)
Mon, 15 Nov 1999 02:30:58 EST


>
>At 03:52 PM 11/8/99 EST, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>>Can we please put some reference images of dialogs on the various
>platforms (IE
>> at least one platform per dialog) in CVS, so those trying to
implement them
>> know what they are supposed to look like?
>>
>>I find i have to hunt through mailing list archives to find the
person who
>> thought up what it should look like, and see if they have an image
around.
>
>Sounds eminently reasonable, since dialogs aren't that big, so we
won't be
>bloating the source tree.
>
>A few questions to resolve first, though:
>
>1. Is everyone willing to maintain these shots for their platforms?
This
>would mean that, once a dialog is fully implemented, any subsequent
checkin
>changing the look of a dialog should also be accompanied by a checkin
for
>the associated screen shot.

I'm perfectly happy to do so, can't speka for others.

>
>2. Is PNG an acceptable format? After all, AbiWord makes a perfectly
>adequate PNG viewer. :-) Unfortunately, until we add some more
inbound
>image conversion libraries, developers may need to have some other
tool on
>hand to create them, though.

Yup, png is fine by me.
>
>3. Finally, for the most contentious question -- where should these
go in
>the tree? :-) Here's a suggestion:
>
> abi/shots/xap/<platform>
> abi/shots/wp/<platform>
>
>I'd also be happy with "dlg" instead of "shots" or perhaps fan them
out
>under abi/docs instead. Or, if folks really don't want them in the
main
>source drop, we could set up a separate CVS module, but that seems
like
>overkill.
>
Anywhere is fine by me

>What does everyone else think?

>
>Paul
>
>PS: In the mean time, Daniel, are there any shots you still need and
>haven't managed to dig up from the mailing lists?
I've found most shots by hunting the archives. Those i don't have shots
for, I've been getting by by rebooting into linux to look at the
dialog. I have short term memory problems, so it gets very annoying,
very quickly :P.
> I'd hate to have you gated by something so trivial.
>



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