File talk:FileExportDialogue.png

Yes we need an image to work with but I really think it should be a Windows or at worst Mac image? Shall I make a Windows image? I assume this image comes from your Gentoo desktop but it will look nothing like that for most users.

Gale

We should probably use a Windows screenshot in the manual by default, but link to some alternative screenshots on other platforms where there is a significant difference, as in this case. It might be worth having a screenshot template on the wiki for this - along the lines of which then displays FileExportDialogueWindows.png with links to FileExportDialogueLinux.png and FileExportDialogueMac.png if they exist. I've no idea if this is possible, but it could be quite useful for allowing readers to see what things look like on their platform, without being too hard work on us to maintain. Richardash1981 00:30, 29 November 2007 (PST)

Richard - I'm sure a primitive template is possible but unless we put images inside a table (generally I prefer to, and turn the Wiki image positioning off)) there isn't much for such a template to do, unless it really is intelligent enough to call related images if they exist and not display broken links if they don't. I don't "think" from a glance at Wikipedia's template help that basic templates can do this?

I'm not sure if we have an image policy for Manual Wiki but some ideas might be:


 * Mention on Main Page that images are on Windows systems unless stated otherwise.
 * To avoid hurting Mac user sensibilities, it would be good to use Mac images here and there if they're not essentially different from Windows.
 * Where Mac or Linux images are very different, note this and link with a thumbnail?
 * All images should have ALT text. Should all images have frames (which provide ALT text automatically), or should this be decided on common sense based on context?

Gale