GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 67436
Shots of documentation should be the same theme
Last modified: 2011-09-30 19:23:35 UTC
On gnumeric/doc/C/figures look differentes images from gnumeric for Documentation. IMVHO, they should use the same theme and the same resolution. By example: solver-05.png has some filter (it looks like smoothed). However solver-04.png not. solver-05.png has a default theme of redhat 6.x, AFAIR. analyssistools-ANOVA2wo-ex1.pnh has a gradient theme. graphing.png has microgui theme. advanced-filter.png has crux theme. etc. I think that consistency would be better.
There is currently a long thread on this on the gome documentation list. Perhaps we should wait until that is settled?
I cannot agree more about how lame different themes and WM decorations look within the same manual. Andreas, I assume you are referring to the discussion at: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2001-December/thread.html#00091 Most of the arguments there are over which Window-manager theme (eg: window decorations). Yes that needs to get sorted out. But with respect to which GTK+ theme, then there is a clear standard in the gnome documentation project. You use the default/plain gtk theme. Here is the official policy here: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/handbook/gdp-handbook/gettingstarted.html#SCREENSHOTAPPEARANCE So even though the doc guys are still arguing a bit about window manager decorations, we need to default to plain gtk themes. I got around the window manager problem in my printing.sgml section by simply not including the window decorations and putting a simply border around the image (screenshooter applet does this for me). IMHO this is the way to go.
Okay, I am going to draw the line on this bug. The GDP has an official statement regarding such an issue, as follows: "As far as possible, use the default settings for the desktop when you take a screenshot. Include the window frame when you are taking a screenshot of a window. The default window frame style is Crux. The default UI theme is Default." I am going to run by this. Also, there is to be _no_ anti-aliasing in screenshots at this time. Not all of us (myself included) can take sshots with aa, and we need to be consistent.
Reassigning for Kevin.
All the shots have been regenerated for 1.2.