[Kde-graphics-devel] KSnapshot screencast feature

[Alex Fiestas]

> > 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.
Thanks for the mockup!

> 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.
My idea is continue without a configuration dialog, and keep it as simple as 
possible, in the same way that ksnapshot doesn't ask for the picture format.
For example:
Always ogv, always encode after record, and for the rest, use the current 
combo boxes (record screen, window, region...).

The only thing I'm not really sure how to integrate it without modify the 
interface is the sound option (with or without sound), but i'm sure that 
somebody can make a good mockup for this!


By the way, I'm not talking about a big and complete screencast solution like, 
camstasia/captivate, I'm talking about something like recordmydesktop, but 
integrated in our environment.

Cya and thanks for the quick response!