Localised application screenshots for social media channels
Paul Brown
paul.brown at kde.org
Wed Nov 19 10:28:16 GMT 2025
On Wednesday, 19 November 2025 09:26:54 Central European Standard Time Emir
SARI wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> There has been a talk on the Promo channel regarding using localised
> application screenshots in addition to English on KDE social media
> channels, in an attempt to improve the awareness for KDE’s international
> presence and showcasing different localisations.
>
> If you would like to assist with this, providing the Promo team with
> localised application screenshots would be very helpful.
>
> Screenshots should ideally conform to below criteria:
>
> 1. Fully translated window contents
> 2. Should be showing a natural-use scenario, not just an empty initial
> application window 3. Breeze theme, without any customisation
> 4. Light mode, since dark windows fare poorly on social media thumbnails
> 5. Just the application window, no desktop
I would like to add: with shadow but on a transparent background.
> 6. Good window size and resolution; not too big, not too small
>
> Feel free to pass the screenshots on Matrix Promo channel. Maybe these could
> be categorised on the Product Screenshots repository, but that’s something
> to follow later on I guess. Also Paul is CC’d here for direct reach.
>
> A post showing the Georgian translation of the Partition Manager can already
> be found here: https://floss.social/@kde/115570407092496876
Thanks for doing this, Emir. And I would like to extend Promo's thanks to
every member the translation teams for your hard and often thankless work.
Cheers
Paul
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