Take newer screenshots, show off newer (and older but important) features

[garrett]

It's been a while since we took screenshots the last time around.

We should update them.

And also, both webp and even avif are now supported screenshot types that are both supported in our target browsers and should compress even better, reducing load times.

https://caniuse.com/webp
https://caniuse.com/avif

[Mash707]

Hi @garrett , Are we particularly talking about the screenshots that are present on the front page of cockpit or the whole website in general?

[garrett]

Front page especially; the ones in the blog posts are historical relics tied to a release. There might be screenshots elsewhere that could use a freshening up though.

This could (and probably should) be a team effort. I'll add something to the agenda for the weekly meeting about it and see if I can get others in the team to pitch in too.

I was the person who took all the screenshots on the front page previously, IIRC. The general idea was to show off important parts of Cockpit and don't show anything other than Cockpit, unless it's to demonstrate it working in an environment (like, "hey, it works on Windows!" and "hey, it is in a browser that works on Linux too"). That's why it's mainly Cockpit, but also a few with browser UI and even complete desktops sometimes.

We're currently lacking:

• Recent screenshots overall
• Cockpit Files
• Cockpit Podman
• Showing off a VM running inside of Cockpit Machines
• The new refreshed accounts page
• Metrics

We should keep showing off things like the Logs page, Software updating, Firewall, and so on.

[Mash707]

So is this something I can work upon or can I participate in the meeting to get a better understanding of what you guys think? I have cockpit installed on my system and have also built it locally.

I can take screenshots from my system. Also is there a particular format of screenshots that you guys look for?

I am also bit confused about what screenshots should we add first or we add them all?

Should I start with replacing already existing screenshots with newer ones?
Thank you.