[PLUG] Screenshot builder for Linux

[Paul Charles Leddy]

I looked at this a few years ago, but was never an active user. It has evolved:

  http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/

On Nov 26, 2007 4:21 PM, Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm often in the situation where I need to put together some realistic
> screenshots very quickly, just to have a graphic that can be easily
> manipulated when working through UI itterations for an app.  Often
> we'll go through 20-30 variations on a UI in a week, and the start-up
> time for the first batch is usually a couple hours.  So for, the only
> application we've found capable of doing this is Visio.
>
> For those of you not familiar with this use of Visio -- it provides a
> pretty complete set of MS windowing controls (buttons, text areas,
> sliders, etc.) that can be moved around and adjusted more or less as
> you would expect them to.  It's a bit like a vector graphics tool
> merged with a visual interface builder like Glade, but without the
> pedantic attitude needed when building *real* UIs.  Visio doesn't care
> if widgets overlap or don't resize, or... it just lets you slap them
> down where ever, and you can export the result as an image for use in
> presentations / "paper" prototypes / etc.  It's extremely useful.  But
> it only runs in windows.
>
> Is anyone aware of an app that runs natively under linux and would
> fill this need?  Glade would almost work, but it is really to rigid --
> it's very handy to just throw an arbitrary image into a ui and build
> from that (eg: take a screenshot of an existing app, like word, and
> add on the components to give it additional functionality -- like a
> new toolbar, for instance.).  This is also very useful when you're
> working with HTML and your widgets can look like anything, or if
> you're just not using a "normal" widget toolkit.
>
> Searching for visio linux apps returns an armfull of vector drawing
> apps (like kivio, xfig, inkscape and dia), and some of those would
> probably work if there were sufficient stencil sets available,
> unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Rogan
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