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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Screen shots
From:       aleXXX <alexander.neundorf () gmx ! net>
Date:       2002-05-18 9:38:17
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On Saturday 18 May 2002 08:40, Neil Stevens wrote:
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> 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.

Yes, I completely agree with all you say.
Adding features only to have more features isn't necessarily alwas a good 
thing.

Bye
Alex
 
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