Hi, On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 15:54 +0300, Jason (spot) Brower wrote: > > У čet, 12. 10 2006. у 10:41 +0300, Jason (spot) Brower пише: > > > I could create all the recordings and other what not. > > What do you think? I think it would greatly improve the quality of > > the all ready wonderful documentation. > > > > > I think that this can be great... > > Can we use at-spi (via LDTP or dogtail) to automate the recordings? > Then > it won't be a hasle for translators to make recordings for localized > documentation. > > Also, I think we shouldn't depend on that in online documentation, > users > with slow net connections may not like that. Maybe this can be > provided > as an alternative to static image inside DocBook file and we can use > XSLT to display one inline and make a link to another. > > Was there any discussions on this topic earlier?
There was some discussion a little while ago about making dogtail scripts for automatic screenshot creation (for translator ease and for updating screenshots each release). There is a demo screencast still available at http://www.gnome.org/~dscorgie/autoshot.html There wasn't really any discussion about animations / screencasts though. I personally think having screencasts would be distracting if they were embedded in help pages. In a similar vain / vane [1], there was some discussion a while ago about adding a "Show me..." type comment for instructions which would launch a dogtail script to open the desired application, go to the right screen and highlight the control, or show a sequence of steps or ... (you get the idea). I have no idea when this discussion took place, but searching the gnome-doc-list archives should reveal it. Unless I dreamt it up, which is quite possible. Anyway, enough pointless ramblings from me. I think getting a dogtail script for screenshots, for 1 manual (as an experiment) would be a good first step, if that's the road you are / anyone is interested in taking. Maybe it could be part of the Grand Mallard Plan (tm). Don [1] I can't decide which is the right word here. [2] [2] Although, writing these footnotes has actually taken longer than Googling it _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
