Re: DBus service for screenshots.

2015-09-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/09/15 17:37, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: > Now that we've retired KSnapshot and are replacing it with a new tool, > we thought we could improve on invokation by not hardcoding a single > command (in KHotkeys or in a config file), but use D-Bus activation to > fire up the application implementing t

Re: DBus service for screenshots.

2015-09-25 Thread Boudhayan Gupta
> So what's the expected flow here? You don't have any way of providing > a filename to the Agent for further manipulation and publishing. Is > the Agent expected to show all recently taken thumbnails in a grid or > similar, and have the user select them? What's the expectation here? I think we're

Re: DBus service for screenshots.

2015-09-25 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: ... snip ... > The use-case for StartAgent is simple - what if a supervisor (such as > the compositor on Wayland) is providing the service, but a separate > application (agent) provides manipulation, editing, saving etc. > functionality? So

Re: DBus service for screenshots.

2015-09-25 Thread Boudhayan Gupta
Hi, I'm moving this discussion over to the xdg mailing list, as per suggestions from the dbus list. On 25 September 2015 at 04:24, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > Hi; > > On 24 September 2015 at 23:25, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: >> Hi, >> >> In December we'll be releasing a new screenshot app for KDE. We'

Re: DBus service for screenshots.

2015-09-24 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
Hi; you also want to use xdg-list, not dbus-list, for discussing a shared DBus interface. Ciao, Emmanuele. On 24 September 2015 at 23:54, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > Hi; > > On 24 September 2015 at 23:25, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: >> Hi, >> >> In December we'll be releasing a new screenshot app for