screenshot instructions

[Karsten Wade]

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 10:53, Karsten Wade wrote:

> I wonder if there is a way to get Anaconda to dump all of it's raw
> curses screens for us to use in <screen/> blocks?  A PNG screenshot of
> the text install would be, uh ... lame ... but it would be a hassle to
> create the TUI screens manually ...
> 
> I'll check with Jeremy to see if this is possible.  One person on
> #fedora-devel suggested doing the install in a virtual machine, then we
> can use the mouse to grab the text.

Just discussed this with Jeremy, here are the points.

* Telnet install is broken, until it gets fixed, we can't use that to
get text screen captures of installation.

* VMWare, unfortunately, is the best virtual machine to install with in
order to get text grabs.  Others such as UML require work to make
happen.

* Even if a version of the Installation Guide had text-based shots of
the installation screen, we would still not be able to easily capture
the contents of scrolling or drop-down menus, etc.

I'm thinking that we should push this discussion off until FC4
Installation Guide, at the earliest.  It would be a good but tough
project to make an a11y version of the IG.

- Karsten
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