On 27 September 2015 at 20:35, Thomas Lübking <[email protected]> wrote: > On Samstag, 26. September 2015 11:05:25 CEST, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: >> >> On 26 September 2015 at 06:55, Eike Hein <[email protected]> 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 > > > > 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
