[Bf-docboard] wiki refactor: help cataloguing UI images!

[mindrones]

Hello,

during the cleanup I've though how we can possibly solve the problem
of Blender's user interface images in wiki.

1) How to document Blender with screenshots always up-to-date with 
the current Blender release?

We can "wrap" images into templates, and then just insert something like

{{Image/Buttons window-curve tools 1 panel|2.48}}

or

{{Image/3D window-Radial menu|2.51}}

to mean "curve tools 1 panel in the Buttons window relative in Blender 2.48",
or "radial menu in 3d window in Blender 2.51", etc...

To do this, we need to know what we have in wiki.

2) But how can we know if an image is already in the wiki database
to avoid to produce and re-insert doubles?

I've recently found that if an image has a category it shows up as 
"Media" in that category, see here an example (thanks Brandished for 
putting categories in all those files :)
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Category:Scripts

So :)
I'd need some help from documenters to cataloguing images in wiki.

Here
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Mindrones/ImageGallery
I've prepared galleries of images in wiki, ordered alphabetically.

People should click on images, edit them and just add 3 cagegories:
- one for the window type (3d, buttons, sequencer, etc...)
- one for the UI element type (panel, button, menu, etc)
- one for where it is in the window (header or view)

Here are some rules I've used myself to catalogue images:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Image_cataloguing/UI

Once we're done, this page will show the results :)
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Mindrones/Reference/UI_elements

Then it will be easy to prepare conditional template using images for 
2.49, and then experiment a bit while preparing for 2.5x

If someone can help, Brandished has marked as "UI" images from T to Z, while I've properly categorized images from "0" to middle "B".

Thanks!

Regards, Luca



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