Bug#690414: screenshots not as TODO but under links

Holger Levsen

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May 20, 2013, 5:30:02 PM5/20/13

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Hi,

I was just pointed to this bug, since I was thinking about the presentation of
screenshots in the PTS. Thinking that it would be annoying to have missing
screenshots displayed as yet another todo item (pointless+annoying to too many
packages) I thought it might be better to link different: display a link if a
screenshot for a package exist. If the link is missing, its clear screenshots
are missing too.

cheers,
Holger

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Paul Wise

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May 20, 2013, 11:20:02 PM5/20/13

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We already link to the screenshots page for binary packages:

http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/warzone2100.html
http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bzflag.html

I still think it would be useful to display a todo item when a package
"should" have a screenshot but doesn't. We just need to work out the
right heuristics for that.

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Andreas Tille

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May 21, 2013, 3:30:02 AM5/21/13

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On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:09:01AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> We already link to the screenshots page for binary packages:
>
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/warzone2100.html
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bzflag.html
>
> I still think it would be useful to display a todo item when a package
> "should" have a screenshot but doesn't. We just need to work out the
> right heuristics for that.

It should be probably possible to define some reasonable debtags to
decide whether a screenshot makes sense or not. The role::* tag comes
definitely to mind, any package that sets uitoolkit::* and x11::* also
should have a screenshot. BTW, I'm also in favour od screenshots for
consol applications with a pure text interface. Having a screenshot
very quickly informs the user what he can expect. I'm missing some
general advise how to make such screenshots. I guess a somehow
standardised setting for the xterm that should be screenshot might make
sense (regarding colors, fonts). Because it might make some extra
burden for people who like to help with screenshots it would be cool to
have some script, say screenshot-term, that fires up such a terminal
with the proper options.

Kind regards

Andreas.

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Boris Pek

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May 21, 2013, 4:00:01 AM5/21/13

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Hi,

A bit off topic, but I have just remembered: it would be nice to hide a the
screenshot area at pages on packages.debian.org for packages from contrib and
non-free areas, because screenshots.debian.net does not store screenshots for
them.

> I still think it would be useful to display a todo item when a package
> "should" have a screenshot but doesn't. We just need to work out the
> right heuristics for that.

Note above should be also taken into account for packages.qa.debian.org,
when such heuristics will be written.

Best wishes,
Boris

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Holger Levsen

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May 21, 2013, 4:30:01 AM5/21/13

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Hi,

On Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013, Paul Wise wrote:
> We already link to the screenshots page for binary packages:
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/warzone2100.html

oh, cool, didnt notice.

> I still think it would be useful to display a todo item when a package
> "should" have a screenshot but doesn't. We just need to work out the
> right heuristics for that.

yes, and a good one. That feature is burned after a period of too many false
positives...

cheers,
Holger

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Boris Pek

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Aug 20, 2013, 8:10:03 AM8/20/13

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Hi,

> I still think it would be useful to display a todo item when a package
> "should" have a screenshot but doesn't. We just need to work out the
> right heuristics for that.

Just a small note. Packages from non-free and contrib areas should be
filtered on the first step of check, because screenshots.debian.net does
not store data for them [1].

[1] http://screenshots.debian.net/about

Best wishes,
Boris

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