Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
In the debate about the number of pictures (mainly screenshots) in the
user guides, Gary offered some examples of screenshots that he thought
were unnecessary. One category was pix of how to open files.
I agree that most of those can probably go, partly because that is too
basic a thing for us to be teaching people, but also because many
(most?) of them are operating-system-specific and the appearance of
various operating systems keeps changing. I'm not familiar with
Windows Vista, but I believe there are some significant differences in
appearance between that and WinXP, and indeed WinXP classic is quite
different from the default WinXP desktop and start menu view (whatever
it's called). So, for example, the screenshot we have of using the
start menu from WinXP shows the classic view and thus may not be of
much help to someone using the default view if they need pictorial
help in following the instructions on using the system menu.
On the other hand, you can configure OOo to use their dialogs rather
than the system specific dialogs for some things such as opening files.
I prefer them over the Windows dialogs because the Windows dialogs show
files and directories in some random order that causes me extreme
frustration. At least using the OOo dialogs I can quickly sort the list
That said, I don't really care if they are there or not if you desire to
remove some screen shots.
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Andrew Pitonyak
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