well, i think i'll wait till fosdem and see what Sander Koning can '
pull out of the hat' as he can give some advice on this project
<a href="http://probably.it">probably.it</a> is just the availability of the application we are going to
use to take the screenshots. If it were me i was just start burning
away with wink, however somepeople want to change the sourcecode or use
gpl software only. However if that is our only option, that is are only
optio and people will be forced to use that if they want to make video
tutorials. So i see your point.<br>
<br>
However you mentioned that the gui would be different for languages,
well you are right there, in some cases video tutorials would only
probably be able to apply for major languages, english, german, french,
spanish and other that are commonly used, however wasting effort on a
system that won't work well is another thought we should consider.
Would we just be better off taking video tutorials seperatly in the
different langauges?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/02/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Philip Rodrigues</b> <<a href="mailto:philip.rodrigues@chch.ox.ac.uk">philip.rodrigues@chch.ox.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Friday 10 February 2006 8:09 pm, Mr Bulldog wrote:<br>> well I don't really like voice over's on video tutorials, as often it is
<br>> poor quality, adds to file size and sometimes especially if you have a<br>> 'yorkshire' slang or accent will be impossible to hear.<br><br>Voiceovers are subject to that problem - they're very hard to do<br>professionally.
<br><br>> So i probably say<br>> you are right there. It is really the concept of the video tutorials,<br>> possibly using the application made by Sander Koning could take steps which<br>> adds notes at like flashes at points and like fades between slides.
<br><br>I don't quite understand you. Could you rephrase?<br><br>I think you might be a little confused about the work done by Sander.<br>Basically, he's investigated the use of KDExecutor for automating screenshot<br>generation. AIUI, with KDExecutor, you can "record" a series of steps done in
<br>a KDE application, and then replay the steps automatically. So the relevance<br>for screenshots is that you can record the series of steps needed to make,<br>say, a screenshot of konqueror showing <a href="http://www.kde.org">
www.kde.org</a>, and then just replay<br>those steps with the KDE language changed in order to get screenshots for all<br>the available languages (since of course, the GUI will be different for each<br>case).<br><br>You might be able to do the same for video screenshots. Sander will be
<br>presenting his work in a few days at FOSDEM, so there should be slides, code,<br>etc available soon so you can fully evaluate it.<br><br>> There is just the boundary betwen the software, where I use wink for video<br>
> screen recording, but that isn't opensource, maybe if we got enough people<br>> to 'petition' or email the creator, he could release it just for use with<br>> kde, than make it opensource, or whatever.<br><br>If it's free to use, and the output is too, what's the problem? Anyway, it's
<br>something of an irrelevance, so let's not spend time discussing it.<br><br>> With KDExecutor does that like make a script of your actions on the desktop<br>> and actually perfrom them exactly the same on another user's desktop - as I
<br>> haven't tried that yet.<br><br>See above.<br><br>I think that now is the time to start working on some examples,<br>proof-of-concept, etc, so that:<br>1. There's stuff for others to see, play with, get excited about, and
<br>hopefully start helping with.<br>2. You can make a conclusion about tools.<br><br>Regards,<br>Philip<br>--<br>KDE Documentation Team: <a href="http://i18n.kde.org/doc">http://i18n.kde.org/doc</a><br>KDE Documentation Online:
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