Who is the Screenshot dialog for? I don't think there needs to be much arguing over this idea of having videos or delays in the screenshot utility if we actually name who the utility is supposed to be for. We can say that it needs to be "simple" or "usable", but those don't mean anything if we don't have a targeted design.
The way I see it, we can target Shaun and similar docs people in our design. The screenshot utility could be dramatically different if we design it specifically for them, probably more of a prompting dialog the way Shaun describes in his email. Or we could design it for developers who need quick screenshots of the window they are working with. Or we could design this to be a bug-buddy style utility that attaches screenshots / videos to bug reports. Or there are plenty of other target uses beyond that. Basically we can't target everyone in the same dialog, but I'm sure we could use the same libraries to write different dialogs or apps for each target. And just to note that all these apps can probably coexist peacefully on our desktop. :-) I don't know what should be done here, I think the bug-buddy application and the docs application are the most interesting, but maybe that's because we haven't done that stuff before. There's also lots of more stuff we can do to the existing screenshot utility to make it easier to use for developers, if that's the actual target of it now. So I guess the question is what do we want to have, for who and who is going to work on this? I'd love to help as I have some ideas for this stuff already, but unless we have active developers it's kind of a moot point. Cheers, ~ Bryan _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
