Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: kde-apps/ksnapshot

[J. Roeleveld]

On Saturday, July 16, 2016 07:25:15 PM Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 16 Jul 2016 20:06:20 J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I saw the following go past in the dev-list:
> >
> > # Johannes Huber <johu@g.o> (14 Jul 2016)
> > # No longer released upstream. Use kde-apps/spectacle instead.
> > # Masked for removal in 30 days.
> > kde-apps/ksnapshot
> >
> > I understand ksnapshot can't be maintained for much longer and with kde4
> > dependencies, it will need more then a little handholding.
> >
> > Does anyone have a decent replacement as spectacle is, in my opinion, not
> > an equal replacement. More like a massive regression from a ease-of-use
> > perspective.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Joost
>
> I am running spectacle-15.12.3 usually in Window, or Rectangle mode and I
> have not come across any usability problems ...
>
> What is it in particular that differs from Ksnapshot's functionality or
> behaviour?

My workflow when taking screenshots:
- Take a snapshot (rectangle)
- "Save as", storing it at a specific location with "<something>_1.jpg" as the 
name
- Change something in an application or going to next screen
- Take a new snapshot (ksnapshot defaults to exact same rectangle which is 
99.9% of the time correct)
- "Save as", ksnapshot goes to same location and increases the numbering 
automatically.

Last time I tried spectacle, I had to navigate the file structure for every 
single screenshot. Set it to save as JPEG. And manually retype the entire 
filename.

This is fine if you occasionally want to save a screenshot and have no problem 
wading through all the screenshots in whatever "default" location Spectacle 
wants to dump them into. But not when taking screenshots documenting an 
installation procedure.

--
Joost