docs Digest, Vol 98, Issue 3

Fri Apr 6 12:13:48 UTC 2012

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>   1. Open Help Conference (Shaun McCance)
>   2. Screenshots in User Guide (Romain Forlot)
>   3. Re: Screenshots in User Guide (Ben Cotton)
>   4. Re: Screenshots in User Guide (Craig Edgmon)
>   5. Re: Screenshots in User Guide (Craig Edgmon)
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> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:50:14 -0400
> From: Shaun McCance <shaunm at gnome.org>
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> Subject: Open Help Conference
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> Hi folks,
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> I'm hosting the Open Help Conference & Sprints again this year,
> August 11-15. I know a lot of Fedora people were interested last
> year, but nobody was able to make it. I hope to see some friendly
> Fedora faces this year.
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> http://openhelpconference.com/
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> The main conference is August 11-12. This is followed by multiple
> team sprints August 13-15. I'd love to see a Fedora sprint, and
> perhaps have a Fedora/GNOME meetup to see how we can better help
> each other.
>
> The presentation proposal period is now open, so if you'd like to
> share something cool with the world, let me know. Also, this year
> I'm having a tools showcase, a set of lightning talks where we all
> show off the tools we make and use.
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> If you have any questions, just email.
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> Thanks,
> Shaun
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 23:27:05 +0200
> From: Romain Forlot <rforlot at yahoo.com>
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> Subject: Screenshots in User Guide
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> Hi,
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> I just wrote about Custumizing Desktop for User Guide and I see that
> the Gnome part use screenshots but to write kde part I didn't take
> screenshots.I think, it imbalance the page contents.
> So it is all right like that ? Do I need to take screenshots or remove
> existing ? I hesitate.
>
> Regards.
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 17:55:54 -0400
> From: Ben Cotton <bcotton at fedoraproject.org>
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> Subject: Re: Screenshots in User Guide
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> Generally, it's best to omit screenshots unless they contribute
> significantly to understanding. Images aren't easily translated, so
> for documents in !en-US either the image doesn't have the correct
> language or the translator has to produce a new image.
>
> If the content can be expressed clearly in text only, I'd suggest
> removing or at least reducing the Gnome images. Anyone else have
> thoughts on this?
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>
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> Ben Cotton
> Fedora Docs Leader
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> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:58:16 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Craig Edgmon <cedgmon at shaw.ca>
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> Subject: Re: Screenshots in User Guide
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> I agree. In addition screen captures have a tendency to go out of date too
> fast.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Craig Edgmon
> Application Specialist
>
>
> On 2012-04-05, at 14:56, Ben Cotton <bcotton at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> > Generally, it's best to omit screenshots unless they contribute
> > significantly to understanding. Images aren't easily translated, so
> > for documents in !en-US either the image doesn't have the correct
> > language or the translator has to produce a new image.
> >
> > If the content can be expressed clearly in text only, I'd suggest
> > removing or at least reducing the Gnome images. Anyone else have
> > thoughts on this?
> >
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> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:01:21 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Craig Edgmon <cedgmon at shaw.ca>
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> Subject: Re: Screenshots in User Guide
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> Sorry one more comment. Unless they are professionally edit, it may cause
> the experience to be cheapened and increase the size of any document. It is
> easier to search and replace than rip and replace.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Craig Edgmon
> Application Specialist
>
>
> On 2012-04-05, at 14:56, Ben Cotton <bcotton at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> > Generally, it's best to omit screenshots unless they contribute
> > significantly to understanding. Images aren't easily translated, so
> > for documents in !en-US either the image doesn't have the correct
> > language or the translator has to produce a new image.
> >
> > If the content can be expressed clearly in text only, I'd suggest
> > removing or at least reducing the Gnome images. Anyone else have
> > thoughts on this?
> >
> >
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