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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Neat interface or Bloat you decide
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-10-23 9:40:42
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On Tuesday 23 October 2001 09:51, Bernd Gehrmann wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 October 2001 07:38, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > > Personally this is a feature that I don't see adds anything to KDE and
> > > makes KDE bigger for no good reason.
> >
> > Think "automated GUI testing".
>
> You mean 'diff screenshot1.png screenshot2.png' is GUI testing? ;-)
>
> Besides, why should it only be possible to make screenshots of main
> windows, not of dialogs or arbitrary widgets? IMO the right way to
> implement it would be to add an interface to get the window id. Then
> you can add dcop interfaces to pixie and ksnapshot that make screenshots
> of a given window id.

Which is why you can already do exactly this with ksnapshot. You can also use 
the kwin dcop interface.

Rich.

>
> => works for any widget and dialog.
> => you can decide whether you want to include or exclude the window frame.
> => you can save the picture to any url (which KMainWindow can't because
>    it's in kdeui).
> => you can apply effects, zoom, and crop the picture, whatever.
>
> BTW, it would be cool if someone implemented xwd's -screen option.
> KDE's snapshot stuff is basically useless for any window with tooltips
> or popup menus (e.g. almost all screenshots on cervisia.sf.net).
>
> Bernd.

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