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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Screen shots
From:       Karl-Heinz Zimmer <khz () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-05-18 6:55:31
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On Saturday 18 May 2002 08:40, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Friday May 17, 2002 10:59, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
> > I too am not sure if removing a usefull functionanily from kwin is a
> > good idea when the main reason seems to be that people do not know about
> > it.
>
> That's not the reason I suggested it.  I suggested it because:
>
> 1) For something that was supposed to be a Window Manager and only a
> Window Manager, it's a toy feature that has nothing to do with managing
> windows. People who want WMs with feature creep tend to use the one that
> has its own script engine in it.
>
> 2) It's one more key that KWin stomps on.
>
> 3) It's something that could be achieived in KSnapshot with KHotkeys by
> adding a new command line option that grabs the current screen to the
> clipboard.  Good old Unix specialization and KDE IPC.
>
> > This _is_ a usefull feature - currently only lacking of being known
> > about.
>
> Is it useful by itself?  No.  You already have to launch an application to
> do something with the image, and paste the image into the application.
>   And even with this feature, most screenshots still won't be taken with
> KWin, because it lacks the basic ability to limit to one window.  So, KWin
> isn't the place to centralize the feature.  That leaves KSnapshot.
>
> It was just a thought, if you decide to leave it in, so be it.  Just
> remember that the more buttons KWin hogs, the fewer buttons the rest of
> the apps get to have access to.

I see, this is correct of course.

So what about my 2nd proposal, don't you think this might be a good idea?

   Perhaps the screenshot functionality could be offered on an even more
   prominent place (like the folks from Lycoris Linux are doing):

              http://www.lycoris.com/images/menus.gif    [13 KByte]

Karl-Heinz
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Karl-Heinz Zimmer, Senior Software Engineer, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB
<mailto:khz@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se>            <mailto:khz@kde.org>


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