Re: gnome-utils branched for GNOME 2.16

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:17 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 12:22 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > Hi Jeff;
> > 
> > On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 21:01 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > > <quote who="Emmanuele Bassi">
> > > 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.
> > 
> > The problem is that I really don't know how to make the Screenshot
> > utility work with a two-step flow without having people screaming at my
> > doorstep because I disrupted their one-step flow. :-)  And I quite agree
> > with them: taking a shot of the screen should require the least possible
> > iterations, especially if you want to take loads of shots.
> 
> I've outlined a proposal for this at least twice,
> but I can't find the original emails, so I'll do
> it again.
> 
> When you call up the screenshot utility from the
> Applications menu, it should bring up a dialog
> asking you what you want to do.  The dialog would
> look something like this:
> 
>  ________________________________________________
> |                                                |
> | ( ) Take screenshot of entire screen.          |
> |     * Use PrntScrn to do this at any time.     |
> |                                                |
> | ( ) Take screenshot of a single window.        |
> |     * Use Alt+PrntScrn to do this at any time. |
> |                                                |
> |                           [Cancel]   [Shoot]   |
> |________________________________________________|
> 

Needs a delay option as well probably.  ie "wait 3 seconds" and then
take the shot.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.