I’m trying to fix the 6 failing checks of an app I maintain (Frescobaldi).
Some checks are easy fixes, but I have many doubts about the screenshots. Screenshots are failing the following checks:
default settings: I’m not sure why this failed. Maybe because a few screenshots are very “zoomed” and you don’t see the window controls?
Include window shadow and rounded corners: I’m afraid I’ve not really fixed this for the “zoomed” screenshots (I’m not good with Gimp). Any tip is welcomed.
Reasonable window size: fixed, I made all the images within 1000px.
In general, it would help to have more details about what caused the check to fail.
My work in progress is in this branch:
Checkout the last three commits and in particular the linux/screenshots directory.
your not using the default settings for gnome, as that’s a gnome app - it should only have the close X in the top right. not the other icons.
Don’t full screen your app, make sure it has plenty of room all around. Then screenshot it with a screenshot tool, ideally the gnome shell screenshot tool, where you can select the window. Then it will have all rounded corners and a transparent shadow. Don’t edit that further.
I had to edit further only the edit-in-place screenshot, where I want a secondary window to be visible on top of the main window. I’m using GNOME default screenshot app and it seems that if I make the screenshot of the main window I’ll see only the main window and not the secondary window layed on top (which is actually the most signifcant part of this screenshot… and no, that window alone doesn’t mean much to a user, I would like to keep the context).
I realize now that my default image viewer (Loupe) doesn’t show the image how it really is. I have to open it in GIMP to see if there’s the shadow and the alpha background. This is so annoying. If I had known when I started working on it…
There’s any simple image viewer which shows the image without interfering?
For the records, I had to remove the screenshots of the application panels (which are not windows), because the screenshot made by GNOME would not pass the Flathub validation.
