[Kde-graphics-devel] KSnapshot screencast feature

[Richard Moore]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Enrico Ros<eros.kde at email.it> wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 July 2009 12:01:54 Richard Moore wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Alex Fiestas<alex at eyeos.org> wrote:
>> > I've been researching a bit about screencast in gnu/linux, and I'd like
>> > to try to add it in ksnapshot, but I'm not sure which is the best way to
>> > do it.... so please, could someone give me a hint?
>>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> I don't think the user interface we want for ksnapshot really matches
>> what is required for a screencast application. I think a better plan
>> is to create a new application for this with a UI that is designed for
>> the task. I would probably have to reject a patch that adds support
>> for screencasts to ksnapshot unless you can think of a way to do it
>> that doesn't impact the existing user interface.
>
> He could do something like this:
> http://img223.yfrog.com/img223/8825/ksnpshtrmx.png
>
> In the end there is one button in the default UI + a systray control while
> recording. The impact can be minimized, the functionality here is big indeed.

Except that that isn't actually enough interface to make a viable
screen recording application. You also need settings like 'should I
only record the focussed window', 'how should I compress the data'
etc. etc. We've managed this far to entirely avoid the need for any
kind of configuration dialog in ksnapshot and adding one for this
would be a retrograde step.

Cheers

Rich.