[PLUG] Screenshot builder for Linux

[Rogan Creswick]

On Nov 27, 2007 7:02 AM, Paul Charles Leddy <pcleddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Er, newer home page:
>
>   http://live.gnome.org/Dia

Unfortunately Dia suffers from the same problem as kivio -- it would
probably work if there were a good set of UI widget stencils, but I've
been unable to find one.  (kivio's stencil set is actually a superset
of the Dia stencils, since kivio can read the dia format.)

--Rogan

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> 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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