Re: 4.9 release notes

On Sat, July 21, 2012 04:30, Carl Symons wrote:
> Would you please give Jure (access to promo.notes.kde.org?
Got it now. Thanks!

> Yes, the Dot is translatable. A Dot Editor can send you the English
> version and input whatever you send back. Slovenian is one of the
> languages supported.
Nice. I think it would be great to get KDE translators involved. Maybe send an
e-mail to [email protected] mailing list when an article is close to finished
and ask for translations?

> That is perfect. If you could find that information from Nuno it would
> be great. He had specific ideas about how to do the best screenshots.
> I will put that into the etherpad or you can when Jeff gives you
> access.
Nunos guidelines for best font settings are here:
http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/2009/05/kpgp-icon-and-fonts.html
> #1 set your hinting style to full. even if you like big fonts the result is
much sharper if your hinting is set to full.
> #2 Use a smaller font size like 8 or 9. specially if you use low or average
hinting the small fonts have a much thiner trace that makes the font
thickness be exactly 1 pixel. If your fonts thickness is not 1 then you are
in trouble. Low hinting style and large fonts make traces of about 1.3 1.5
thikness that result in blury looking fonts, they are not only bad looking
they tend to produce headhackes as your eys try to contstantly focus the
font.
> #3 don't use bold, bold fonts are not as readable as normal fonts because
the with of the trace is usually larger than1 and smaller than 2 producing
blurry results
> #4 use liberation sans (ok this one is the most discussible one in my book)
other sans fonts works as well..
> #5 Try to make your fonts more greish than blackish IMO much beter sharpness
rusults.
I'll copy them to the pad.

> Of course, if you already know how to do good screenshots, it would be
> good to get that information into the etherpad.
I didn't do anything special. Just tweaked the fonts per Nuno's advice and
used KSnapshot. All else at KDE defaults. Well maybe resiced a thing or two in
the snapshot to declutter it ot make it look nicer.

> Thank you for everything you're doing. It was a pleasure meeting you
> and Neja at Akademy.
Just trying to do as much as time permits. It was great meeting you too,
although we didn't talk as much as I would like. Oh, and Neja says: "Hi!"

Have a great time,
Jure "JLP" Repinc


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