Spectacle moved to KDE Graphics, future of KSnapshot?

[Boudhayan Gupta]

On 27 September 2015 at 20:35, Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Samstag, 26. September 2015 11:05:25 CEST, Boudhayan Gupta wrote:
>>
>> On 26 September 2015 at 06:55, Eike Hein <hein at kde.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm more concerned about the migration path from KSnapshot
>>> to Spectacle. Can we make a hard decision to abandon
>>> KSnapshot on X11
>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>>> and have Spectacle install a ksnapshot
>>> symlink for a grace period?
>>
>>
>> -1
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> One hardly makes sense without the other.
> As of today there'll be many installations with (hand- or distromade) global
> shortcuts calling "ksnapshot -something" on Ctrl/Alt/Meta+Print - if we tell
> distros to abandon ksnapshot, the result will be a hell lot of systems w/o
> working printscreen functionality. "Supergreat".
>
> I'd prefer to see a symlink or shim (wrapping ksnapshot switches to
> "spectacle" (wtf came up with that name? ;-) ones), but if there's no
> migration path, ksnapshot "needs" to remain and users have to choose the
> upgrade to "spectacle".

The shim is a good idea. Anybody up for writing one (I'm not too good
at shell, unfortunately).

Cheers,
Boudhayan