Posting Updated Screenshots

[Carlos Leonhard Woelz]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:23:09 +0200 (CEST), "Dik Takken"
<D.H.J.Takken at phys.uu.nl> said:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I once heard that keeping screenshots in the KDE documentation up to 
> date is a problem. Has anyone been thinking about the possibility to
> allow 
> visitors to the on-line documentation site to upload new screenshots 
> by adding a 'update this screenshot' button? That would make it much 
> easier for contributers and doc maintainers to keep screenshots up to 
> date.

It is a bit more complex, as we need screenshots for all languages. A
scripting solution using KD Executor,
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=14018
is being developed by lauri. It would allow to create the script once
and then generate the screenshots for all supported languages (and
different widget styles).
 
> While we're at it, we could also allow visitors to add comments to 
> documentation. These comments could be bugs, missing things, more 
> examples, additional screenshots. Doc maintainers could use these
> comments 
> to update the actual documentation.

Like adding a "report documentation correction or improvement" to the
page, directing it to bugs.kde.org, already with the correct component
and data, like the "Report Bug" menu item?

> How about this?

It is a good idea. Don't know how much traffic docs.kde.org gets to
evaluate how likely it is to get patches or bug reports using this
system, or how hard it is to implement it (the handbook html pages there
are automatically generated from the docbook sources).

Cheers,

Carlos Woelz
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