[Kmymoney-devel] updating the screenshots of the kmymoney documentation for KDE4

[Alvaro Soliverez]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On 2010.05.10 15:34, Cristian Oneţ wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This task is up for grabs for anyone wanting to contribute to make
>> kmymoney
>> better. We have the following situation: the KDE4 release is getting
>> closer to
>> stabilisation but the manual we have still has the KDE3 version
>> screenshots.
>> So the task would be simple and would need the following steps:
>> 1. checkout the sources of the manual using the following command:
>> 'svn co
>> svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/office/doc/kmymoney
>> kmymoney-doc'
>> 2. this will get the sources into the 'kmymoney-doc' folder
>> 3. for each screenshot try to take the same picture with the KDE4
>> version
>> (note that this should be done using the default KDE theme and fonts
>> preferably on a KDE4.4 system)
>> 4. after taking all the screeshots pack the folder and send it to the
>> mailing
>> list or to me so we can commit them
>>
>> And let the others know I you start working on this.
> [someday I'll learn to remember check my headers before I send - this
> time to the list....]
>
> I've finally started on this - but it's not quite so simple.  That svn
> co only gets the doc directory - not in context.  Also, it looks like I
> have to do a make install from a version compiled from  the
> createtarball script to actually get the new version to use all the new
> icons.  (but I'm not really sure - see next paragraph)
>
> One question - do you want me to include the icon pngs?  I assume they
> are somewhere in one of the icon directories, so trying to get the
> right size screenshot seems harder than just copying them - if I knew
> which directory to use.  However, I can't seem to find them.  All
> home.png or home_view.png icons have the orange roof.  The home icon in
> the new version only shows the edge of the roof, and it looks black or
> dark blue, not orange.  Is that some standard KDE icon?
>

The SVN version should get the icons correctly, without need to
install from the createtarball script. But, you have to install it,
and make sure you set the install prefix correctly.

Regards,
Alvaro