This is an email sent to a smaller group by Jonathan Blandford; it contains some (IMHO) useful questions to ask that I hope someone in this discussion can answer.
> So, my personal opinion on this issue is that > > 1) Screenshooting videos is a pretty neat idea and could be really > useful, but: > > 2) It doesn't belong in the screenshot dialog. > > They are pretty distinct tasks, and the workflow of them is different. > Right now, when you hit PrtSc, it takes a screenshot of the full screen > and presents the dialog to you. Alt-PrtScn takes a sshot of the current > window and then presents a dialog to you. I think it would be a really > bad idea to start recording a session immediately on a keypress, so I > think you would have to tell the user that they're about to start > recording their desktop. I would hate to popup a dialog immediately to > ask which you want to do and break the immediacy[1] of the current > screenshooter. > > Instead of overlapping with that dialog, why don't we make Shift-PrtScn > begin screen recording. That way, you can popup your dialog without > affecting the current printscreen functionality. I imagine that there > could be some code overlap there (/tmp file handling and gnome-vfs > saving being the biggest ones), but the vast majority of code would be > different. I would suggest that you put the code in gnome-utils, > though. > > As a quick question, how does this fit in with vino/vnc? Are people > going to use this to try and share their desktops? Or is this just a > quick video? I still don't fully understand what the use cases of this > is. That doesn't mean that it isn't cool, but I'd like to understand > that first. > > Thanks, > -Jonathan > > [1] Though I _really_ need to speed up the drop-shadow code to make it a > bit more immediate. S-: > [End jrb's email.] On 6/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > So with Ronald Bultje & Zaheer Abbas Merali we now have some code to > record a video of your desktop (without all the hassle of running VNC > etc.). Just start recording a video of your actions. See > http://zaheer.merali.org/?p=116 and > http://blogs.gnome.org/nb.cgi/view/rbultje/2005/06/03/0. > > Zaheer implemented this in python as a notification area icon. I've been > thinking this might be better integrated into the existing Screenshot > button in the panel. I'm not sure on the best approach UI-wise though. So > i'm asking for comments here. I have basically 2 ideas: > > 1. "Hide" the "Record desktop video" functionality in the popup menu of > the Screenshot panel button. You then popup a dialog asking the user where > the video should be saved, what type of video (Theora, AVI, mpeg4) it > should be saved as and how long (seconds) or unlimited. Once the user > presses the "Start recording" button, the panel icon changes shape to > indicate it's recording. It then either records for a predetermined amount > of time, or it stops when the user presses a certain key combination or > clicks on the Screenshot button in the panel. > A problem with this approach is that there is very little feedback to the > user when the recording has stopped. Perhaps it's better to record first > and then ask how/where to save it? > > 2. Modify the screenshot dialog so the user can say "no i don't want a > static screenshot, record a video instead". After that, the same workflow > follows as described above. I'm not sure this is a good approach since if > done incorrectly, you could clutter the screenshot dialog (it's really > simple & easy to use atm). We might just add an option to indicate the > user wants to record a video and then for how long (seconds) or unlimited > (user-action to stop recording). And then after it has recorded the video > only then ask how & where to save it. Problem with this approach is that > you get 1 dialog for 2 different functions. For example: the current > dialog has a Save (iirc) button for saving the screenshot. How would this > work if you could also start recording a video in that dialog? > > I want to prevent having 2 panel buttons both for recording your desktop > (static & dynamic (video)). > > Comments? > > Jeroen > > p.s. Please CC me since i'm not subscribed to the usability list. > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
