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

[John Blomfield]

I have just installed opensuse Leap 42.1 and found that kde-spectacle 
has replaced ksnapshot but ksnapshot is still available and can be 
installed from the repository if you de-install spectacle to avoid 
conflicts. Leap 42.2 is about to be released.

John

On 11/11/2016 07:27 AM, Murray Strome wrote:
> More on this subject: *KDE Ships KDE Applications 15.12.0*
> https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-15.12.0.phphttps://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-15.12.0.php
>
> /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 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./
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Murray Strome <wmstrome at shaw.ca>
> To: VLUG <discuss at vlug.org>
> Sent: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 17:33:17 -0700 (MST)
> Subject: [Discuss] Demise of ksnapshot in Ubuntu, and probably 
> everywhere eventually
>
> 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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