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On Monday 13 September 2004 16.10, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> On Sunday 12 September 2004 2:14 pm, Lauri Watts wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 September 2004 18.45, Stephan Binner wrote:
> > > On Sunday 12 September 2004 02:50, Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> > > > - Move Plastik from kdeartwork to kdelibs in preparation for KDE 4.0
> > >
> > > And make it default. ;-) Honestly, I heard at aKademy about a script
> > > which was said to help to produce screenshots of applications for all
> > > languages.
> >
> > Indeed, this is not just a rumour :)
> >
> > I haven't quite got it up and running yet, but consider my objections to
> > a style change withdrawn.
>
> Oh boy!  Is it in cvs or online somewhere yet?  Any tech details?  Using
> dcop? Any developer docs?  How does it account for network apps?  Where
> will it reside in cvs when done?  Does it take into account color and
> window manager theme?  Will kde apps simply have a screenshot directory
> with a script and example files that will generated the screenshots when
> you install the docs?

It uses kdexecutor.  There's no docs (nor really any need for any)

Screenshots are taken without window decorations, but you can grab a whole=
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window (sans wm deco) or a single specific widget.  It will take all=20
screenshots for all installed languages.  It is not possible due to=20
kdexecutor licensing, to generate them on the users machines, but there can=
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be a central collection of scripts that can be run en masse to generate all=
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screenshots for all languages, to commit to kde-i18n cvs.  It specifies sty=
le=20
in the script, and uses the currently set system colour scheme (if KDE apps=
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supported command line option the way they do --style, then we could specif=
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a colour scheme too.

It's not all that stable, yet, and I have a couple of issues to work out (i=
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doesn't deal at all well with multiple KDE installations for instance, and=
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that leads to some really broken results when it tries to run konqueror fro=
m=20
one installation with kioslaves from another.) =20

I need to check with the author about how to fix the gnarly issues yet.

> Other fun things like
> -Of course the docs screenshots would look the same.
> -Automated screenshots for releases and pre-releases to entice users on t=
he
> website.
> -KOffice screenshots can finally use the same theme!
> -Theme maintainers could generated tons of screenshots with ease.
> -www.kde-apps.org can generate screenshots of applications.

All the above should be largely possible, except that you can't take=20
screenshots of an entire desktop, and it only works with Qt based apps.

Regards,
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Lauri Watts
KDE Documentation: http://docs.kde.org
KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org

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