Packaging the FAQ Guide (was #ubuntu-doc report for 2004-01-06)

Sean Wheller sean at inwords.co.za
Sat Jan 15 18:01:32 UTC 2005


On Saturday 15 January 2005 12:50, Enrico Zini wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 06:25:19PM +0200, Sean Wheller wrote:
> > > HTML is the simplest answer for covering all desktops.
> >
> > This makes me think that we should rather remove the window frame from
> > screen capts. It does not look the best, but the picture information
> > still serves the same purposes. This will give a greater level of
> > indirection to our screen capts across desktops. A nice side-effect will
> > be a very, very small reduction in file size.
>
> I like the idea of shipping HTML to allow any program to view the docs,
> however I don't like the idea of removing the window frames: the window
> and the decorations are visually recognized as a single object, and
> since Ubuntu does have a default desktop appearence, there is no point
> in making screnshots more difficult to identify.
>
> If someone then has enough clues to be able to change its default
> desktop in Ubuntu, they are probably already used in not minding the
> frame difference anyway. :)

If ubuntu has a kde desktop it will change the look and feel.

To illustrate the point please see the same screencapt from GIMP 2.0 on the 
default settings for the following::

KDE http://www.inwords.co.za/ubuntu/kde.jpg
TWM http://www.inwords.co.za/ubuntu/twm.jpg
FVWM http://www.inwords.co.za/ubuntu/fvwm.jpg
WM http://www.inwords.co.za/ubuntu/wm.jpg

The all look different. Removing the frame, they call look the same.

Thanks for the input.

-- 
Sean Wheller
Technical Author
sean at inwords.co.za
http://www.inwords.co.za
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