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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KSnapshot 0.7 is great
From:       Frans Englich <englich () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-10-11 14:08:14
Message-ID: 200610111751.02743.englich () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 11 October 2006 15:51, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2006 21:16, schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
> > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 11:51, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> > > OTOH, maybe someone will agree on a different thing: What about adding
> > > "Send email..." action? KMail already supports pasting from clipboard
> > > very nice, but "Send email..." could remove a need for finding KMail
> > > and pasting the content.
> >
> > this was discussed quite extensively on k-c-d already.
> >
> > the conclusion derived there was to rip out the Print button and replace
> > with an "Open With.." button that produces a drop menu with appropriate
> > applications (your preferred mail client could be one of them) giving the
> > user quick access to all sorts of functions such as cropping, printing,
> > scaling, sending, composing, etc.
> >
> > otherwise we end up with a ksnapshot with 2^10 microfeatures that are
> > actually offered by other more competent apps already while making
> > ksnapshot nigh unusable. there are so many things one might do with a
> > snapshot: upload to flickr, upload to pastebin, crop, resize, add a
> > shadow, add to documentation, insert in slide show, email, send via
> > instant message, annotate,
> > print, ....... Open With seems like a sane solution.
>
> Another sane solution would be to go for more service oriented
> architectures (or whatever buzzword applies). While playing with the
> contacts framework of mine I found this approach really usefull:
>
> You have some data of a given type (like here image/*). There are several
> actions possible, all are registered to a global service trader. The
> program dealing with the data queries the trader and lists the possible
> actions to the user. (IIUC Openstep has something like this since... oh,
> ages.)
>
> With KSnapshot the "Open with..." button would than be a "Do..." dropdown
> button or similar. And for powerusers there could even be support to add
> shortcut buttons to the GUI on their liking, without the need to hardcode
> any special action.
>
> Everyone pleased, endlessly extendable by service plugins.

Extending KSnapshot is, as Aaron stated, a re-occuring discussion. Personally, 
I don't follow those who want KSnapshot extended with feature X, because 
imho:

KSnapshot is not supposed to be an advanced, feature-heavy program. It's 
supposed to please the most common user scenarios(and which I think it 
succeeds with). That's not done by tailoring it towards the rarest user 
scenarios.

Advanced users are not left out in the cold. They can simply install an image 
program that specializes in this kind of work.


Cheers,

		Frans
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