KScreenGenie 2.0.0 Release Announcement

[Boudhayan Gupta]

Hi,

KScreenGenie 2.0.0, the first version of KDE's new screenshot tool,
has been released today. You can find the tarballs here:

* Mirrorlist: http://download.kde.org/stable/kscreengenie/2.0/src/kscreengenie-2.0.0.tar.xz.mirrorlist
* Sha256Sum: db8109ee5b791847733809c743ac7256072a828d934a7918c87635ea9064e46d

Unless critical bugs are found which must be fixed in a point release,
this will be the first and last release of KScreenGenie, as
KScreenGenie will be renamed to KSnapshot and will replace the
original KSnapshot as KDE's Screenshot Tool in Applications 15.12.

Bugs may be reported against the KScreenGenie component of KSnapshot
on the KDE Bugzilla (bugs.kde.org).

For more information about the software, please visit
https://blogs.kde.org/2015/08/12/ksnapshot-next

Errata:

The documentation for KScreenGenie mentions several keyboard shortcuts
(Shift+PrintScreen, Alt+PrintScreen etc) which may be used as
convenience shortcuts to bypass the KScreenGenie window, directly take
a screenshot and save it in the default save directory with the
default filename. Please note that these shortcuts are handled by
KHotkeys and that KHotkeys has not been patched to respect these
shortcuts; therefore they will not work by default. Distributions
packaging KScreenGenie may take the appropriate action necessary to
enable these shortcuts in their KHotkeys package.

Please refer to KScreenGenie's command line options (kscreengenie
--help) to obtain the exact command which to execute for these
shortcuts. It is mandatory to specify the Notify (-n or --notify)
option to provide feedback to the user if the KScreenGenie window is
not brought up.

Information for distribution packagers:

For distributions which are shipping a Plasma 5/KF5 based desktop,
distribution packagers are requested to ship KScreenGenie in their
default repositories in order to give users a chance to test this
software. It is further recommended (although it is not required) that
KScreenGenie be set as the default screenshot tool, reasons for which
being that KScreenGenie is a KF5 app while KSnapshot is a KDELibs 4
app, and that KScreenGenie is at least as stable and as functional as
KSnapshot.

Do note that for distributions shipping KScreenGenie, for Applications
15.12 and later the ksnapshot package must be marked to obsolete and
replace the kscreengenie package as necessary.

Cheers,
Boudhayan Gupta

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