Spectacle moved to KDE Graphics, future of KSnapshot?

Boudhayan Gupta bgupta at kde.org
Thu Sep 24 22:54:02 BST 2015


Hi Martin,

On 24 September 2015 at 20:09, Martin Klapetek
<martin.klapetek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Boudhayan Gupta <bgupta at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> This does make more sense, but wouldn't an interface under the
>> org.freedesktop namespace need to be vetted by Freedesktop?
>
>
> Not really, you can use whatever namespace you want.
> You could use the freedesktop one and then inform the
> xdg list about it, maybe others would join with the idea.
>
> Or you can just start with org.kde.screenshot and add it
> to KSnapshot (tho that would require another release of
> it).

So I've gone ahead and implemented the DBus bits, and launching via
"qdbus org.freedesktop.Screenshot / StartAgent" launches Spectacle
just great.

Is this the command that khotkeys should execute, or is there a more
genetic dbus command that I can invoke?

Cheers,
Boudhayan




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