Re: gnome-utils branched for GNOME 2.16

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 21:01 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Emmanuele Bassi">
> 
> >   * Switch Screenshot to a full GtkFileChooser dialog and provide
> >     the UI it as a shared library for other applications to use;
> 
> Have you seen the Windows Vista screenshot tool? The basic UI is pants, but
> it offers some cool features that we could swipe:
> 
>  * Full screen
>  * Window selection (click to choose)
>  * Rectangular selection
>  * Lassoo selection (relatively crackful)
> 
> At the moment, it is fairly difficult to do a window selection unless you
> know the secret password (key combo or CLI parameters). An optional two step
> process (made optional by defaulting to full screen as it works now) would
> help with that.
> 
> We could even integrate video screencast creating tools into the default
> screenshot tool (such as Byzanz, Istanbul, or a combination of the two so we
> can do GIF and GStreamer video codecs).
> 
this looks a much better UI for Istanbul than what it currently (= last
time I tried it) has, an icon on the tray. Count my vote on this :-)
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>