[Design] screenshots with callouts for details

Tue Mar 29 21:09:33 PST 2005

Hi,

I've uploaded three JPGs (of the mac build) with callouts to the bottom of
the .6 Cleanup page.

http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Chandler/ZeroPointSixCleanup

The first deals with beveling and alignment issues.

The second deals with margins, gutters and borders. (Margins are like
cellpadding and gutters are like cellspacing. Margins pad the insides of
things. Gutters put space between things.)

The last is a composite of the first two.

It would be great to get a round of feedback on how helpful, not helpful
this particular approach to callouts is either in a face to face meeting
or via the list. And then I can do another one for windows.

A lot of the callouts refer to things of very few pixels...it might be
helpful to load these images into something that let's you zoom in and
out.

Thanks!

Mimi

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> Hey Mimi,<br>
> So in looking through
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> href="http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Chandler/ZeroPointSixCleanup">http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Chandler/ZeroPointSixCleanup</a>
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> saw a lot of things mentioning that this or that margin should be this
> big, and so forth.. one thing that I think would be incredibly useful
> is a set of screenshots (at least one per platform) with just the
> polish stuff pointed out with all those neat red arrows... <br>
> <br>
> As a developer I think it can be hard to make sure you're getting all
> the details, and making sure those details look as expected on each
> platform. <br>
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> For instance, I might fix a border on windows and then fire it up on
> the mac... as a windows developer, it might look "good enough" for the
> mac, but I don't know if its exactly what you're trying to achieve...<br>
> <br>
> Alec<br>
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