[PLUG] Screenshot builder for Linux

[Paul Charles Leddy]

Er, newer home page:

  http://live.gnome.org/Dia

On Nov 27, 2007 7:01 AM, Paul Charles Leddy <pcleddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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