Bug#674556: #674556 gtk-recordmydesktop: hides main menubar in gnome3 making desktop unusable
Markus Koschany a...@gambaru.de writes: On 17.09.2012 08:07, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Can you make a screencast of this? I remember spending at least 20 minutes trying to figure out how to stop the screencast and eventually resorted into switching to another virtual console to kill it. http://www.gambaru.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/120917_gtk-recordmydesktop_gnome3.ogv A right-click on the recording icon pauses the application, a left-click starts the encoding process and stops recordmydesktop. Hope this helps a little. Hmm, I don't see any recording icon in your screencast. Only background image and some terminal emulator. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#674556: #674556 gtk-recordmydesktop: hides main menubar in gnome3 making desktop unusable
On Tue, 25. Sep 14:03 Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Markus Koschany a...@gambaru.de writes: On 17.09.2012 08:07, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Can you make a screencast of this? I remember spending at least 20 minutes trying to figure out how to stop the screencast and eventually resorted into switching to another virtual console to kill it. http://www.gambaru.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/120917_gtk-recordmydesktop_gnome3.ogv A right-click on the recording icon pauses the application, a left-click starts the encoding process and stops recordmydesktop. Hope this helps a little. Hmm, I don't see any recording icon in your screencast. Only background image and some terminal emulator. It's on the bottom-right of the screencast. It is clearly visible after 7 seconds and in the last frame. Black square and gtk-recordmydesktop written next to it. Cheers Markus signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#674556: #674556 gtk-recordmydesktop: hides main menubar in gnome3 making desktop unusable
Hi, Markus Koschany a...@gambaru.de writes: Although it's true that the top panel in Gnome 3 vanishes if you use the default values, you can always uncheck Reset Capture Area and Outline Capture Area on Screen under Advanced Settings - Misc. See also [3]. Maybe this should be made the default under gnome3? But this isn't even necessary because you can start and stop the application by clicking on the recording icon in your notification area on the bottom of your desktop. Can you make a screencast of this? I remember spending at least 20 minutes trying to figure out how to stop the screencast and eventually resorted into switching to another virtual console to kill it. -Timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#674556: #674556 gtk-recordmydesktop: hides main menubar in gnome3 making desktop unusable
On 17.09.2012 08:07, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Hi, Markus Koschany a...@gambaru.de writes: Although it's true that the top panel in Gnome 3 vanishes if you use the default values, you can always uncheck Reset Capture Area and Outline Capture Area on Screen under Advanced Settings - Misc. See also [3]. Maybe this should be made the default under gnome3? I'm not sure whether this would count as a real solution but i guess such a fix is doable. It's up to the maintainer to decide which path he wants to go. But this isn't even necessary because you can start and stop the application by clicking on the recording icon in your notification area on the bottom of your desktop. Can you make a screencast of this? I remember spending at least 20 minutes trying to figure out how to stop the screencast and eventually resorted into switching to another virtual console to kill it. http://www.gambaru.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/120917_gtk-recordmydesktop_gnome3.ogv A right-click on the recording icon pauses the application, a left-click starts the encoding process and stops recordmydesktop. Hope this helps a little. Cheers, Markus signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#674556: #674556 gtk-recordmydesktop: hides main menubar in gnome3 making desktop unusable
severity 674556 important thanks Hi, i'd like to add more information to this bug report. First of all i can confirm the bug and it's reproducible but i disagree with its severity. I hope i can convince you why i think the severity isn't justified. The bug was already reported to the Ubuntu bug tracker [1] in November 2009 and also to the official one at sourceforge.net in May 2011 [2]. The patches which were mentioned by Gregor are already included in Debian and fix other issues. Although it's true that the top panel in Gnome 3 vanishes if you use the default values, you can always uncheck Reset Capture Area and Outline Capture Area on Screen under Advanced Settings - Misc. See also [3]. This restores the expected behaviour of recordmydesktop. Even with the default values set, it's always possible to press the Super/Linux-Key to start an application like your gnome-terminal and kill gtk-recordmydesktop or use ALT+F2 to enter a command. But this isn't even necessary because you can start and stop the application by clicking on the recording icon in your notification area on the bottom of your desktop. Last but not least most of the time i use window managers like Openbox and gtk-recordmydesktop is working just fine for this use case which makes it not unusable at all. All in all there are too many use cases and workarounds for which recordmydesktop is still useful. It's definitely a bug which should be fixed but IMHO shouldn't be release critical. Btw an alternative to recordmydesktop is byzanz which i intend to adopt in the near future. ;) Regards Markus [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/recordmydesktop/+bug/483325 [2] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=3301563group_id=172357atid=861428 [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/recordmydesktop/+bug/483325/comments/4 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#674556: #674556 gtk-recordmydesktop: hides main menubar in gnome3 making desktop unusable
On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:16:34 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: I too can still reproduce this bug. It makes the package completely unusable for its intended purpose (desktop screencasting). I'm bumping severity accordingly. If you know some workaround that makes it still possible to use the package, please let me know. According to the PTS, Ubuntu has some patches: https://patches.ubuntu.com/g/gtk-recordmydesktop/gtk-recordmydesktop_0.3.8-4.1ubuntu1.patch Maybe debian/patches/selectwindow.patch or debian/patches/compiz.patch are related? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk-recordmydesktop/+bug/534386 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk-recordmydesktop/+bug/556345 (Just guessing, I don't plan to install Gnome to check it out :)) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: The Mamas The Papas: I Saw Her Again Last Night signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#674556: #674556 gtk-recordmydesktop: hides main menubar in gnome3 making desktop unusable
gregor herrmann gre...@debian.org writes: (Just guessing, I don't plan to install Gnome to check it out :)) When I heard that ctrl-shift-R in gnome3 starts the builtin screencast function I don't need gtk-recordmydesktop anymore so my motivation to fix this bug is also quite low. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#674556: #674556 gtk-recordmydesktop: hides main menubar in gnome3 making desktop unusable
package gtk-recordmydesktop severity 674556 grave thanks Hi, I too can still reproduce this bug. It makes the package completely unusable for its intended purpose (desktop screencasting). I'm bumping severity accordingly. If you know some workaround that makes it still possible to use the package, please let me know. Alternatively, is there some other desktop screencasting software that I could use? Screencasts are really useful for reporting desktop bugs. -Timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
