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

[Murray Strome]

More on this subject: KDE Ships KDE Applications 15.12.0https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-15.12.0.phphttps://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-15.12.0.phpAfter 14 years of being a part of KDE, KSnapshot has been retired and replaced with a new screenshot application, Spectacle.With new features and a completely new UI, Spectacle makes taking screenshots as easy and unobtrusive as it can ever be. In addition to what you could do with KSnapshot, with Spectacle you can now take composite screenshots of pop-up menus along with their parent windows, or take screenshots of the entire screen (or the currently active window) without even starting Spectacle, simply by using the keyboard shortcuts Shift+PrintScreen and Meta+PrintScreen respectively.We've also aggressively optimized application start-up time, to absolutely minimize the time lag between when you start the application and when the image is captured.After 14 years of being a part of KDE, KSnapshot has been retired and replaced with a new screenshot application, Spectacle.
With new features and a completely new UI, Spectacle makes taking screenshots as easy and unobtrusive as it can ever be. In addition to what you could do with KSnapshot, with Spectacle you can now take composite screenshots of pop-up menus along with their parent windows, or take screenshots of the entire screen (or the currently active window) without even starting Spectacle, simply by using the keyboard shortcuts Shift+PrintScreen and Meta+PrintScreen respectively.
We've also aggressively optimized application start-up time, to absolutely minimise the time lag between when you start the application and when the image is captured.
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From: Murray Strome <wmstrome at shaw.ca>
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Sent: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 17:33:17 -0700 (MST)
Subject: [Discuss] Demise of ksnapshot in Ubuntu, and probably everywhere eventually

 body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial;}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.  Murray
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