[Discuss] Demise of ksnapshot in Ubuntu, and probably everywhere eventually

[Manfred Moser]

Good to know - i use ksnapshot a lot myself but I am still on 16.04. How did the upgrade to 16.10 otherwise go? Is it worth leaving a LTS release for the changes? 

Manfred

Murray Strome wrote on 10.11.2016 16:33:

> I have used ksnapshot as my main tool for capturing parts of my desktop screen. I was surprised to find that it no longer exists in the repositories for the latest version of the Ubuntu family (16.10). It took me a while to track down the information that it has been deleted, and that the recommended replacement is kde-spectacle (just search for spectacle in the Software Center, Synaptic or do sudo apt-get install spectacle {or it might be kde-spectacle} in a terminal. It is functionally quite similar to ksnapshot except that, as far as I can tell with the limited amount of time I have played with it, saving is only to /home/Pictures and the only format is .png. I think I could select the directory to which the image would be stored, and I also think that the image could be saved in almost any image format.  
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> Murray