Re: [platform-doc-dev] The changed arrow in all views

[Michael Valenta <Michael_Valenta@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From what I can see, they are not (i.e.
the screenshots in the Eclipse help on GTK are from Windows). Also, while
browsing in the dev.eclipse.org:/home/eclipse repository, I did not see
any feaures containing images for other platforms. Does anyone know if
they exist yet?

I would be concerned about the Eclipse
SDK committing to generate screenshots for multiple platforms for 3.1 just
because of the shear volumn of screenshots that we would need to generate.
However, I do agree that users should be presented with screenshots for
their native platform. So perhaps we should, in the very least, create
the features for the platforms we would like to have screenshots for and
provide guidelines for generating images of an acceptable quality. Product
providers or other interested parties would then at least be able to contribute
screenshots for their platform of choice.

On a related not, the images in the
Doc plugin are all windows images. I would assume that this means that
any images that are placed in the Doc plugin must be windows images. The
implication of this is that we must generate all screenshots in windows
with the option of generating them on other platforms if we create the
features for the other platforms, as mentioned above.

Michael

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Do the RedHat images get contributed back into our
doc projects [apologies 
for being a clueless noob]? If they are already doing these, it would 
certainly make sense for us to ship them.

McQ.




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The technology definitely exist to ship platform-specific images thanks
to
the RedHat contribution to the Help component.

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This is actually a very good question that we should consider. I know
there are several Eclipse customers who do not ship on Windows.

We have the following options
1) Do everything on Windows and then be sure we have no sizes set in our
doc. At some point we could create platform specific fragments that
replace these screenshots with screenshots taken on the other platforms.
This way products shipping on some platform we have not gotten to yet can
do thier own (and hopefully contribute them back)

2) Do a mix of screenshots in our main doc in all 3 major platforms  (XP,
GTK and on the Mac).

I think the first option is a better one for consistencies sake - anyone
already relying on our doc lives in this world. That also allows
contributors like the RedHat guys to ship doc more consistent with thier
products lines.

Opinions? Either way I think we should remove any size references from
our
doc markup - this has always been our policy and we now have an even
better reason to follow it.

Tod





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Can we shoot all the screen shots on linux this time?

McQ.




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In 3.1 we have changed the menu down arrow in all of views from a black
icon to a white one. Are we going to have to retake all of our view
related screenshots as a result?

Tod
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