-------------1 Eewwww... Flash has always had a nasty mem leak in it. More so you cannot copy and paste text out of it as examples, can't save off a page to separate file for later reference or merge pages for accumulated knowledge. Edits would require flash tools. Then upkeep would incur so much more overhead and require more from end user. The only possible benefit I could is for complex tasks that new users might attempt. On 9/20/07, Mustafa Qasim <alajal(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

Στις 21-09-2007, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 03:43 +0500, ο/η Mustafa Qasim έγραψε: +1, definitely. Screencasts are useful, and that's proved by their popularity. It would be great if we had screencasts for some "complex" docs tasks -- I'm about to create one for transifex. It's definitely better than nothing, having in mind what Paul said: they're more or less a one-off thing with zero maintenance. Also, maybe to show off of a default Fedora desktop, a standard anaconda installation, package management etc. Some people want to see how it will look like, and don't care that much about learning something or being able to copy-paste for it. Some people think that yum is still awfully slow for example, or that there are things that can't be done compared to apt. A screencast-showoff of this would be great IMO. In other words, screencasts won't substitute proper documentation. And heck, if a screencast is important enough for docs purposes, it could be accompanied by a wiki page with full details, references etc. In terms of localization, if we have the transcript for every screencast, we could even localize it with subtitles in sub/srt files. -d -- Dimitris Glezos Jabber ID: glezos(a)jabber.org, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B http://dimitris.glezos.com/ "He who gives up functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous) --