Patch on ksnapshot

Richard Moore richmoore44 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 19 11:37:00 BST 2006


On 8/19/06, Jakob Petsovits <jpetso at gmx.at> wrote:
> The way KSnapshot interacts with Krita is not so great anyways, or better,
> there's no integration at all. I'd prefer KSnapshot to replace the "Save As"
> button with an "Import Into Krita" when started from within the app (saving
> should happen inside Krita then), and hide the Print button as Krita can do
> that anyways.

That is reasonable, though I am slightly afraid of making it so that
the UI is different depending on how it's launched. I guess in this
case though it can be considered as a sort of dialog of krita.

>
> (Importing would likely involve automatical clipboard copy & paste which is
> already implemented in both apps, just has to be coordinated.)

Yes, that can be done via dcop.

[snip]

> I'm also in favour of removing the "Print" button. Printing bitmaps without
> having the opportunity to position and resize them on the printout is
> pointless anyways, and should really be done by bitmap editors or DTP apps.

I tend to agree.

Rich.




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