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

[Robert McMeekin <viper mcmeekin info>]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
[...]
> 	One way we could try to get around these problems is to present a
> dialog before taking the screenshot offering to take a screenshot of the
> entire desktop environment[1], a window (which you would actually select
> by clicking on it) and allowing a delay ... What I don't like about
> this, though, is that I think that gnome-panel-screenshot should aim to
> be a really simple tool where you just hit the button and its done.
>
> 	Another way, (I think this was in Alan Cooper's "The Inmates Are
> Running The Asylum") is to allow the screenshot to be cropped using grab
> handles on the edges of the screenshot.
>
[...]
>
> [1] - I'm trying to use the terminology suggested by Pat and co. ...

You know how in the workspace switcher, you can actually pick-up the
window silhouettes and move them places?  How much work would it be to
have a similar functionality in the screen thumbnail of the screenshooter?

 ---- Robert McMeekin