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Checkout the online tour http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/ I am curious are there any software/libraries which can build a demo/tour like this for any Desktop application?

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Really like that they've done that. A very slick html interface which I'm sure they spent a fair bit of time on. I doubt it was "automated" with any software. Every object is a html element, with "firefox" just opening an iframe for example.

Very nice - even if it's not really a representation of the OS, it shows off the UI very well IMO.

on my android tablet the fancy tour confused me, i felt like i m on my desktop.. Good job, thanks ubuntu for one more version of new goodness.

Camtasia might have produced something like that, but the last time I used it (years ago) it exported to Flash exclusively.

Camtasia will record a screencap video.. It can't do a full interactive demo like this.

Also it will export the videos to more than Flash.

You are 100% correct. Sorry, I'm on a very bandwidth-constrained connection while I'm on travel. It looked like a full-screen video to me.

Thanks!

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