Shaun, I agree with all points you have made, but after all this time I am unclear what *changes* you are proposing (now, as opposed to first post). Could you please clarify?
Thanks, -- Karim Nassar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PS: FWIW, Ubuntu 5.04 on PPC with external keyboard: printscrn key doesn't work. Likely this is due to the powerbook keyboard not having a printscrn key. On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 17:36 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > I'm going to reply en-mass to a number of points. For people with > threaded mail clients, this will appear as a reply to Alan's post, > but it's not just directed at Alan. > > 1) My proposal for a seperate dialog for the screenshot utility > was independant of whether it should be able to take videos. > I really do think it's the right thing to do. I makes all the > functionality of the tool exposed in the UI. That means it can > be used under more circumstances (my crazy xnest usage), and > everything is more discoverable. > > 2) Just to reiterate, Printscreen and Alt+Printscreen should > continue to do exactly what they do now. > > 3) Though I didn't say so before, I think we should bury the > screenshot tool under Accessories or something. But that's > not really relevant to the rest of my email. > > 4) I don't have a problem with *short* hints in the interface, > and I *am* the documentation team. I would be concerned about > long narratives, but a one-line italicized tip is cool in my > book. Mind you, I don't think we should go adding such tips > all over every interface. A dialog of this sort is different > from, say, a Nautilus window, from my point of view. > > 5) If the tool got video recording, it should absolutely be > renamed in the interface. Like "Screen Capture Tool". > > 6) I don't necessarily think that screenshots and screen videos > are that different from a user's perspective. I think if we had > a "Screen Capture Tool" menu item, people would be able to find > that. But that's just a guess. I'm open to being proven wrong > with some user testing. The only question that's relevant is > whether it makes sense to a user, not whether it's easy from > an implementation standpoint. > > 7) Don't like Point 6? Fine and dandy. I'm not going to push > it too hard. But I stand firmly behind Point 1. > > 8) I remember somebody saying something once about using fancy > new X capabilities to do a quick shutter animation over the > desktop or window. Make it fast enough to be unobtrusive, and > maybe mostly transparent, and I will consider the implementor > of said eye candy to be a deity. > > -- > Shaun > > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability -- Karim Nassar Collaborative Computing Lab of NAU Office: (928) 523 5868 -=- Mobile: (928) 699 9221 http://ccl.cens.nau.edu/~kan4 _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
