Spectacle moved to KDE Graphics, future of KSnapshot?

[Jeremy Whiting]

Hello,

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 4:11 AM, Boudhayan Gupta <bgupta at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Spectacle has been moved to KDE Graphics.
>
> There are a few things that need to be done for a smooth release with
> Applications 15.12. I'll list them below:
>
> 1. Inclusion into the list of applications released as part of KDE
> Applications. I believe I'll have to trouble Albert for that?

A mail to the release-team mailing list would be nice, but it's ok I
added spectacle to the list of modules for Applications 15.12.

> 2. Icon. I've filed a Breeze bug at
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353126 to symlink the ksnapshot
> icon to spectacle. Should I do the same for Oxygen?
>
> 3. KHotkeys. Once Spectacle is included into Applications 15.12, I'll
> patch KHotkeys to look for Spectacle rather than KSnapshot.
>
> Now, what'll come of KSnapshot? Spectacle clearly obsoletes KSnapshot
> on X11 (and Wayland as long as KWin is running - if a generic Wayland
> protocol isn't out by dependency freeze I'll add a generic KWin
> backend temporarily for this release). However, we have no Mac OS and
> Windows backends, so KSnapshot clearly still has use in those
> platforms.
>
> What about moving KSnapshot to Extragear?

If this is what we end up deciding it needs to be decided before Nov
11 which is the KDE Applications 15.12 dependency freeze date. Let us
know on the release team mailing list so we can remove it from the
list of modules if so.

thanks,
Jeremy

> Cheers,
> Boudhayan Gupta