F9 installation screenshot
Pavel Shevchuk
stlwrt at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 20:10:46 UTC 2008
We can start slideshow with screenshot of one program in many
languages (RTL included) and note that most programs are translated,
then put screenshots in en_US locale with descriptions translated
On 4/29/08, Josep Puigdemont <josep.puigdemont at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> El dt 29 de 04 del 2008 a les 19:29 +0300, en/na Pavel Shevchuk va
> escriure:
>
> > >http://www.8bitjoystick.com/archives/photos/Redhat_Linux_Install_Kitchen.jpg
> > 403 here
> >
> > >I don't feel so good about the idea. Its giving me Windows XP
> > flashbacks *shudder*
> > Windows installer shows text. People don't read text, they want cool
> > slideshow with reflections, animations etc. And popular logos like
> > firefox and vlc cone will do magic, people will also notice other cool
> > apps like amarok and gimp
>
>
> This won't be easy or cheap (in kb) to localize if we have to have a
> collection of screenshots for each language supported by anaconda.
> Maybe the text could be overlayed or painted above a common image
> (keeping also in mind RTL languages).
>
>
>
> /Josep
>
>
> >
> > On 4/29/08, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 18:43 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> > > > Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 17:04 +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> > > > >> We used to have the installer flip through a slideshow of images back in
> > > > >> the old days -- does that code still exist? In that case it would be
> > > > >> easy (albeit to late for F9) to have this.
> > > > >
> > > > > All the code is still there. The difficulty is really in someone
> > > > > stepping up to create the content
> > > >
> > > > We can start by setting a place (in the wiki?) listing the
> > > > specification: PNG (can/should we use other formats? vectors?),
> > > > resolution and probably the location (directory).
> > >
> > >
> > > Currently, the code looks for png only. That could be changed if it
> > > helped from a size perspective. The directory is
> > > currently /usr/share/anaconda/pixmaps/rnotes (and with lang-specific
> > > dirs under there) but that's very able to be changed
> > >
> > >
> > > Jeremy
> > >
> > >
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