Screenshots for comman line applications [Was: Screenshot für gromacs]
[Nicholas, I guess you don't mind if I publish your not so private mail
to the Debian Med list.]
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:54:12PM -0700, Nicholas Breen wrote:
> Hmm. gromacs -- like some other of those packages -- is primarily a set of
> console-based programs. There are a few X tools for data analysis, but none
> that are heavily used; gromacs output tends to go straight into other tools for
> interpretation, like pymol and grace.
Ahh, I was not aware of this and was probably missleaded by the pure existence
of the X tools.
> Is there a debian-med convention for CLI "screenshots"?
Unfortunately not. In principle there should be general conventions on
screenshot.debian.net (it is no Debian Med only issue), but I was
thinking about this problem myself several timed because we also have a
lot of CLI applications but never found a really good solution. Probably
the best (out of other not so good ideas) was to show sommething like
$ <command> --help
output. The fact that the user realises that this is a command line application
might be a reasonable information the screenshot might provide. And we should
use a common (default) coloring of the terminal used (and use a terminal without
any extra menu stuff etc - simple xterm might do well.
Any idea is welcome.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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