Vedran Ljubovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There would take very much diskspace, especially screenshots! And > > what about the time needed to do all the screenshots, list > > plugins.. > > Well obviously screenshots should be made while packaging. Apart > from distributing the workload, this has another benefit of > requiring packagers to test their packages. And also, screenshot > would be present only for "programs" (e.g. packages that are listed, > which usually are rather large anyway). Noone said that screenshots > need to be up-to-date! I think most users would be satisfied with > something a few versions back. Finally, those screenshot can be low > res, as suggested by Olivier. So I could give up on the "Click here > to enlarge" part :) then screenshots can be 8-bit PNGs constrained > to 200x150 pixels. That shouldn't be larger than 20-30 kB.
what's more, this bring the coherency problem where packages would come with screenshots made into different desktop, with different themes, with different fonts, ...
