Re: 4.6 Releases Need You!

A Quarta, 19 de Janeiro de 2011 22:34:40 Stuart Jarvis você escreveu:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Stuart Jarvis <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> > On Monday 17 January 2011 10:41:34 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> >> Hey,
> >> 
> >> On Sunday, January 16, 2011 13:42:25 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> >> > I just spent a bit of time on the 4.6 release announcements...
> >> > 
> >> > So questions:
> >> > - Sebas - can you deal with all the html formatting or should we do
> >> > that in  the shared doc?
> >> 
> >> I can deal with that, having the texts good quality, it becomes
> >> manageable.
> > 
> > Cool :-) We'll try and make some good quality texts then...
> 
> I've spent some more time. This still *really* needs wider review to
> make it good.
> 
> >> > - Sebas (again...) - the discussions at Akademy concluded that we
> >> > should not  have an SC announcement and only the 3 announcements:
> >> > workspaces, apps and platform. Is this practical from the www
> >> > infrastructure pov right now - can we have three announcements linked
> >> > directly from the www front page? Or do we need a little SC
> >> > announcement somewhere that just points to the others? (as per 4.5)
> >> 
> >> It's something that's in our hands, one umbrella announcement makes it
> >> easier to do within our current process/setup, but we should be able to
> >> squeeze in three, too.
> >> 
> >> We'll need a short SC blurb anyway, since we cannot send out three
> >> warnings to the press channel, and then again three announcements.
> >> People would (rightfully) hate us for spamming.
> > 
> > Ok, so we'll prep an SC announcement too. We can see if it looks ok to
> > have three announcements on the main www site, if not go with the short
> > one.
> 
> Added to the top of the etherpad doc. This can also form the basis of
> a dot article - in fact this can be more or less copy pasted if it
> comes to it and then linkified to the annoucement
> 
> >> > - Anyone running 4.6 pre-releases - We need screenshots. If you don't
> >> > have somewhere else to store them, you can use the promo wiki for
> >> > upload. Or mail  them to me an I can host them. Please add links in
> >> > the announcement texts.
> >> 
> >> For screenshots, please keep in mind the following:
> >> 
> >> - use the standard wallpaper (Horos)
> >> - use Oxygen as widget set
> >> - use default colors
> >> - use a sans-serif font, preferable Liberation point size 9
> >> 
> >> Collecting screenshots from different sources is very difficult, and we
> >> end up with a mess if we don't make them all as consistent as possible.
> > 
> > Ok, well I'm updating my home desktop some recent SC4.6 pre-release, so
> > if my system still works after that I should be able to make some
> > screenshots
> 
> I've done what I can:
> http://www.asinen.org/downloads/originals.tar.gz
> http://www.asinen.org/downloads/cropped.tar.gz
> 
> (cropped are cropped according to my understanding and the guidance in
> the promo wiki - originals are also there in case i screwed up so
> someone else can have a go)
> 
> Italics in the etherpad doc reference possible locations for
> screenshots and their captions - or where I couldn't make a screenshot
> due to something breaking I've described what I think should be there.
> 
> Ok guys, I haven't got as much done as I wanted, but I'm now offline
> (almost entirely, definitely no time to do more anyway) until the
> morning of 26 Jan (maybe evening 25th).
> 
> That means that you're on your own, if the screenshots have some
> hidden suck then you'll have to try and create new ones - I won't have
> access to a machine with 4.6 releases. Imho, the release annoucements
> at the moment are not a disaster, but they can surely be made plenty
> better :-)
> 
> Good luck!
> Stu
> 
> PS - Nuno, the wallpaper is awesome :-)
> 
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the oxygen-gtk is way better that that :) you are not using the correct one I 
think :)

using medium hinting on fonts produces sharper fonts :)


overal good work IMO :)
-- 
Nuno Pinheiro | [email protected] | UI Designer 
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company
KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-independent software solutions
 
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