Re: [PATCH]: Improving gnome-panel-screenshot

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 03:25, Kevin Vandersloot wrote:
> Why not just add a button for the user to click on the window to
> screenshot just like gimp? This seems the most logical and useful thing
> to me.

Would we still have a keyboard-only way of doing this?
-Bill

> Regards,
> Kevin
> 
> On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 20:41, Fernando Herrera wrote:
> > Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:54:28AM +0200, Daniel Borgmann escribió:
> > 
> > >Hello,
> > >that's a great thing. :) However a question, what happens if the panel
> > >is active when the button is pressed? And isn't the panel always active
> > >when the user activates the menu item (making it practically a hidden
> > >feature again)? Would it be possible to focus the previously active
> > >window before taking the snapshot?
> > 
> > 	When the button is pressed (Take an screenshot Action item), it
> > closes and executes gnome-panel-screenshot. But the screenshot is taken
> > from the window the cursor is over, not from the active window.
> > 
> > 	Currently take an screenshot from a window is only possible
> > using ALT + Print Screen and not using the menu item.
> > 
> > 	With the "both" screenshots patch, it is possible to take also
> > using the menu item, but you will get the first window where you moved
> > your mose over as the "window screenshot".
> > 
> > 	In the real world, if an user wants a screenshot, he should use
> > the Print Screen key, because is the only sane way to select/move over the
> > window. The other possible approach is the tipical "Take an screenshot"
> > dialog where you have a delay entry and the dialog hides. But this way
> > is overcomplicated.
> > 
> > 	Maybe we can show the user the Print screen magic adding a
> > lamp-tip (ie: a beatiful lamp picture and a text saying "You can take
> > also an screenshot pressing Print Screen key").
> > 
> > 	Also, I've just found a bug in the screenshot program.
> > Bugzilling it...
> > 	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115572
> > 
> > Salu2
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Fernando Herrera de las Heras
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