[Qgis-developer] String freeze for 1.7.0 in effect

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
>>
>> Release team (Anita & Anne I'm looking at you! :-) and anyone else who
>> is interested, could you help by turning the whats new list (see Help
>> -> About -> Whats new?) into a visual changelog with fleshed out
>> descriptions and lots of nice piccies? It would be nice to take the
>> screenies all with the same desktop theme for visual consistency. We
>> can just use wiki formatting as per 1.6.0 release and direct users to
>> that wiki page on release.
>
> Sure. Who will create the screenshots (or which desktop theme should we
> use)? Should we also put some new screenshots on the website? If I recall
> correctly, most of them are still from 1.0 or even pre-1.0.
>
> Best wishes,
> Anita
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At the risk of causing a mass migration from the hairy hordes when
they see how beautiful linux is, lets use maybe gnome clearlooks or
something distro agnostic. I think its ok to use mac/linux/ubuntu
screenshots but standardised for each platform. eg.

Linux: Gnome Clearlooks
Win: WinXP 'toys r us' look
Mac: ok no choice here :-)

It would be actually nice to have on the front page the same project
loaded on each platform and the three screenshots superimposed to give
the user an immediate impression of 'this thing runs everywhere'.

Regards

Tim


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