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Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> 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, ...
>

Make the policy that all application screenshots should:
- -be of only the application (no desktop)
- -not have window decorations
- -use MandrakeGalaxy widget theme/style if applicable

I tried one just to see what it would look like:

http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/screenshots/imgseek2.png

Regards,
Buchan

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