On 3/28/06, Daniel Robitaille <<a href="mailto:robitaille@gmail.com">robitaille@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex"> On 3/27/06, Matthew Paul Thomas <<a href="mailto:mpt@myrealbox.com">mpt@myrealbox.com</a>> wrote: > On Mar 25, 2006, at 5:29 AM, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: > > ... > > I know some of you are taking (or planning to take) screen shots for > > various guides. > > ... > > If any of you think this is a good idea, watch this video: > <<a href="http://betterdesktop.ximian.com/video/changedesktopbackground/">http://betterdesktop.ximian.com/video/changedesktopbackground/ </a> > Subject10.mpeg> > > Please avoid using screenshots in documents that are intended for > screen use. When you must use them, crop them to the relevant part of > the interface, give them faded edges, and shrink them to 75% or so, so > they don't look like the actual interface. Thanks. </blockquote> You know, I've never considered that people would mistake screenshots in help files for the actual interface... Short summary, for those who don't/can't want to pull down 166.4Mb of video file: User is asked to change the desktop background on Gnome, finds the help files after a minute or two, then proceeds to mistake the screenshots that the Help file is lavishly illustrated with for the interface... I noticed that the user also didn't seem to be actually reading the text that accompanied the screenshots... (Was there supposed to be a soundtrack on this file? Totem-xine in Breezy wasn't making any noise for me...) /me reconsiders bothering with screenshots for the Ubuntu Desktop Guide... Brian.