Hello world, as you might've already noticed, we're working on a set of tools for creating Libreoffice screenshots for the purpose of help and documentation [1]. Apart from an automated/command-line part of the task (that will non-interactively open every dialog in Libreoffice and save its screenshot), we will be providing help text authors/technical writers with a way to create and annotate a screenshot of any dialog manually, from Libreoffice UI and/or help authoring extension.
Since there was some initial confusion in last Friday's design call as for who the target group of this feature is, let me make it clear once again: this is not going to be a tool for taking Libreoffice screenshots and uploading them to Facebook/Twitter/ask.libreoffice/bugzilla. Rather than that, it is going to be used by people who write help texts, user guides, or in general, the documentation of Libreoffice and want to embed screenshots into .xhp help files. So I came up with some mockups, but since I'm as far from someone who can come up with a nice, usable UI as I can be, I'd appreciate some feedback and/or improvement proposals. I'll be linking those mockups while outlining (not only) functional requirements of our work: 0) Any functionality related to screenshot feature should stay invisible to 'normal' users. It should be activated only by switching on an experimental mode or a specific expert config toggle 1) It should be possible to take a screenshot of every dialog, modal or modeless. Since a modal dialog makes it impossible to activate any other control in the underlying Libreoffice window, the "trigger" to take a screenshot is likely to be incorporated directly in the dialog, like for example http://picpaste.com/screenshot2-MXBWBA1U.png [2] 2) After taking such a screenshot, it should be possible to annotate/label widget(s) in the dialog. See http://picpaste.com/screenshot1-IhK3p0jP.png [3] the two buttons in mini-toolbar over the screenshot preview are meant to add and delete an annotation. 3) In the end, the help text author should be able to save the screenshot and s/he should also be provided with a snippet of help text markup, that s/he can simply copy'n'paste into the help text and fill in the real data. See again in [3] how would such a piece of text look like. 42) Someone in the design call mentioned MS Word built-in screenshot tool. I had a brief look at it and it seems to be able to take a screenshot AND embed it directly into the currently edited document. That looks like a feature for the help authoring extension, but until the previous 3 points are not done, it has a low priority. So ye, that's it for now. I'll be grateful for any feedback I can get from this list. [1] https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2015/12/16/tender-for-automated-helpdocumentation-screenshot-creation-201512-06/ [2] http://picpaste.com/screenshot2-MXBWBA1U.png [3] http://picpaste.com/screenshot1-IhK3p0jP.png -- Katarina Behrens Softwareentwicklerin LibreOffice ––– CIB software GmbH Geschäftsstelle Hamburg Flachsland 10 22083 Hamburg ––– T +49 (40) / 28 48 42 -235 F +49 (40) / 28 48 42 -100 [email protected] www.cib.de ––– Sitz: München Registergericht München, HRB 123286 Geschäftsführer: Dipl.-Ing. Ulrich Brandner -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
