Long term, we want to give application authors control over what
screenshots to ship. For the more local issue here, when we generate
the appstream data we actually download the screenshots to a cache
locally and re-write the URL so that we use the distribution mirror
rather than the upstream website. Usually the upstream doesn't supply
16:9 screenshots, so it's often better to re-do them anyway.
Thanks.
Richard
On 24 September 2014 13:51, Edgar Muniz Berlinck <edgar.vv(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Just a little question: If we decide to use the screenshots provided on the website, what
happen if the image just disappear? Why not put all the screenshots on the
/screenshots-extra?
Edgar Muniz Berlinck
about.me/edgarberlinck
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Ryan Lerch <rlerch(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 09/24/2014 07:03 AM, Richard Hughes wrote:
>>
>> On 24 September 2014 01:01, William Moreno <williamjmorenor(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>>>
>>>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/AppdataImprovement#increase_ap...
>>
>> Great, thanks!
>>
>>> So many of these apps don´t have screenshot, so there is no any problem if I
>>> upload screenshot of the app to my
fedorapeople.org space? Or it is prefered
>>> to use upstream screenshots?
>>
>> Upstream is preferred, but if you're actually taking the screenshot
>> you can put it anywhere (including in
>> fedora-appstream/screenshots-extra/) -- thanks!
>>
>> Richard
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> Yeah, this is the way i usually do it, just a few things to note:
>
> 1. the folder name in the screenshots-extra folder is important -- make it the same
as the title of the app here (without .desktop)
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/screenshots/f21/status.html
>
> 2. Hard link to the screenshot in github. Be sure to point at the image in the master
branch. Even though you may be checking it into the developmentapps branch, point it to
where it will be when it gets merged. an example of this in master is:
>
https://github.com/hughsie/fedora-appstream/blob/master/appdata-extra/des...
>
> 3. Screenshots should be certain dimenstions. as outlined here:
>
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/#screenshots
> i also use this gnome extentstion to help me get the right aspect ratios for
screenshots:
>
http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2013/10/08/how-to-take-169-screenshots/
>
> feel free to ping me in irc (ryanlerch on freenode) or email me if you need any more
info!
>
> cheers,
> ryanlerch
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