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Bug 234599

Summary:	Provide text annotations for screenshot attachments
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Jörg Thönnes <jtk499>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Mylyn Inbox <mylyn-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	CC:	wmitsuda
Version:	2.3	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Jörg Thönnes

2008-05-29 08:20:22 EDT

The screen shot attachments with the coloured annotations are really nice.

It would be great to also have text annotations, ideally coloured and balloon style.

Comment 1 Mik Kersten

2008-05-30 18:51:00 EDT

+1  This would be useful.

Comment 2 Willian Mitsuda

2008-06-08 20:34:07 EDT

We've discussed this briefly before, and I was afraid this could bloat the UI.

But if there is demand for it, I can start to prototype something.

I particularly liked the balloon suggestion because it helps to distinguish the text from content behind it.

Comment 3 Jörg Thönnes

2008-06-09 06:19:45 EDT

 (In reply to comment #2)
> We've discussed this briefly before, and I was afraid this could bloat the UI.
> 
> But if there is demand for it, I can start to prototype something.
> 
> I particularly liked the balloon suggestion because it helps to distinguish the
> text from content behind it.

What I did currently: I marked interesting points which different colours and then explained
the colours in the text description. Having (balloon) text would make this one step.

Thanks, Jörg

Comment 4 Mik Kersten

2008-06-09 21:53:57 EDT

I like the balloon idea too.  But wouldn't that be a lot of drawing work?  Not that I want to discourage cool drawing work :)  

Perhaps just text in rectangles would be a good start?

Comment 5 Jörg Thönnes

2008-06-11 02:40:57 EDT

 (In reply to comment #4)
> I like the balloon idea too.  But wouldn't that be a lot of drawing work?  Not
> that I want to discourage cool drawing work :)
> 
> Perhaps just text in rectangles would be a good start?

Sure, rectangle text would be fine. The connection to the place where the text applies could
be drawn by hand. Approach by small steps is better than doing one huge step.

Comment 6 Steffen Pingel

2009-08-19 21:03:11 EDT

This functionality is available in Mylyn 3.1 or later.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 277245 ***