changes to wm theme affecting screenshots - with apologies

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Mon Apr 5 09:14:05 UTC 2010


Hi Steve,

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Steve Langasek
<steve.langasek at canonical.com> wrote:
> Dear documenters,
>
> You may have read about the controversy surrounding the change in the
> position of window buttons in the Ubuntu desktop for Lucid
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/532633).  A
> resolution has been found to address the most serious concerns that were
> raised, and will be accepted shortly into Lucid for inclusion in Beta 2.
>
> Unfortunately, since the change involves reordering the window buttons, I
> fear that this may render many of the screenshots prepared so far for
> documentation purposes inaccurate.
>
> How much of a setback is this going to be for the doc team?

Nothing at all - we don't use screenshots in the system documentation.
I don't believe there are any places where the position of the window
buttons are referred to either. There might be some in
gnome-user-docs, I suppose, but if there are then we haven't got
around to updating them for the new theme.

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Matthew East
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