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Contribute

Creating a screencast is easy - all you need is a steady hand and a lot of patience. If you want to help out with Plasma screencasts, here are some guidelines:

Use a resolution of 640×480 to produce GIF files with the same dimension as the original screencasts.
Make your desktop look like the ones in the other screencasts. This includes panel height, widgets, desktop style, icons in the system tray and wallpaper.

Hint: Most are default settings. In later screencasts I've increased the panel height slightly to make the system tray look nicer (shows both top and bottom borders).

No unnecessary mouse movements. In the beginning and at the end the mouse pointer should be completely still for about 1 second.
Smooth mouse movements, not too fast. When clicking it's sometimes nice to hold down the button a little bit longer than usual before releasing.
Use left click when possible.
Redo until you're 99.9 % satisfied.
Follow the name convention: Plasma_howto-[section]-[item].png. See the name of the other screencasts.

For information about how to record the screencasts and some tips, see Record screencasts to animated GIF files.

Suggestions for new HowTos

Coming on well, Hans. When you've done all that you've listed, could you do something about Dashboard? It's something I know next-to-nothing about, and since many people are taking 4.3 as the time to migrate, I'm certain there are going to be lots of questions about it.
- Hm, I don't know if there's much to say about the dashboard - what it basically does is to show the widgets on the desktop over the windows (i.e. bring them to the front). The problem with showing this in an animation is that it involves the keyboard. I don't know any other way to access the dashboard. --Hans 11:00, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Move widgets between activities --Hans 21:13, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
Change to classic application launcher --Hans 09:50, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
Add icons to deskop/panel/folderview --Hans 20:46, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Animations that needs to be redone

Don't forget to state why it needs to be redone!

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+== Contribute ==
+Creating a screencast is easy - all you need is a steady hand and a lot of patience. If you want to help out with Plasma screencasts, here are some guidelines:
+* Use a resolution of 640×480 to produce GIF files with the same dimension as the original screencasts.
+* Make your desktop look like the ones in the other screencasts. This includes panel height, widgets, desktop style, icons in the system tray and wallpaper.
+'''Hint:''' Most are default settings. In later screencasts I've increased the panel height slightly to make the system tray look nicer (shows both top and bottom borders).
+* No unnecessary mouse movements. In the beginning and at the end the mouse pointer should be completely still for about 1 second.
+* Smooth mouse movements, not too fast. When clicking it's sometimes nice to hold down the button a little bit longer than usual before releasing.
+* Use left click when possible.
+* Redo until you're 99.9 % satisfied.
+* Follow the name convention: Plasma_howto-[section]-[item].png. See the name of the other screencasts.
+For information about how to record the screencasts and some tips, see  [http://hanswchen.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/record-screencasts-to-animated-gif-files/ Record screencasts to animated GIF files].
 == Suggestions for new HowTos ==
 * Coming on well, Hans.  When you've done all that you've listed, could you do something about Dashboard?  It's something I know next-to-nothing about, and since many people are taking 4.3 as the time to migrate, I'm certain there are going to be lots of questions about it.