On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Calum Benson wrote: > Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:41:03 +0100 > From: Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Usability] screenshot & recording desktop video > > 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
I was thinking Escape would be the most obvious button to stop recording. > (and perhaps also how to select a window, for window capture mode) copying how the Force quit applet works might be a good idea, changing the mouse pointer to a cross + and have them click on the window. > (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 For what it is worth Adobe Photoshop has a feature "File, Automation, Fit to Size" which sounds pretty similar (works nicely if you want to quickly createa single thumbnail) and I have an incorrect implementation of this functionality I hacked together in Python for the GNU Image Manipulation Program but abandoned. If you think you might actually use it I might take another look at'll take another look at it and get it done right this time (or maybe I'll just file a feature request, probably be easier to reuse the built in resize functionality). Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
