On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 20:04 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's what i've come up with so far: > http://www.xs4all.nl/~jeroen/screenshots/Screenshot-Screenshot-2.png > > I'm pretty happy with that. Obviously, the video parts would be > insensitive until the user selects the "Record desktop video" radiobutton. > The "take a screenshot of the desktop" would be the default option > selected.
Cool. You could probably even simplify it even further, something like: http://www.iol.ie/~calum/screencap-basic.png http://www.iol.ie/~calum/screencap-advanced.png where the big toggle buttons at the top would have some appropriately-cool-and-descriptive artwork on them :) Although I agree you might need to retain the instructions in the dialog about how to stop recording (and perhaps also how to select a window, for window capture mode), but only if you can't otherwise make it obvious enough for the user to work it out themselves the first time they try it, which should really be the goal for something this simple. (I know we hadn't mentioned a scaling option before, but I was using iPhoto last night and its 'export no larger than' option is pretty useful for scaling photos as they're exported... and I'd certainly find it useful for exporting otherwise-large screenshots too. And indeed for videos, but I guess to much post-processing would be involved to have it listed as an option for those.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
