On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 09:01:16 PM Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:31:28 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > > I have ksnapshot in @world, so depclean didn't touch it.  It
> > > still works fine.  Spectacle and ksnapshot block each other, but if
> > > you unmerge spectacle you may be able to get a working ksnapshot
> > > back, at least for now.
> > 
> > I know, had to copy a meta-ebuild ( kdegraphics-meta ) into my local
> > overlay and modify it to pick ksnapshot though. As the later version
> > only allows Spectacle.
> 
> I don't use the meta packages, preferring to define my own set with the
> packages I want, so I wasn't aware of Spectacle. I've just tried it an is
> seems to do much the same as ksnapshot, just with a lot more white space
> in the UI

Don't forget:
- No auto-incrementing of screenshot-numbers
- Always defaults to PNG (Why!?!!?!)
- Always defaults to a the ~/Pictures folder
   (Folder can be adjusted in the settings, but why not the previous one)
- When wanting to use "save as...", you first need to click the little triangle


> - but WTF do they block one another, they're only screen shot
> programs?

I read somewhere there is a "wrapper" included to call Spectacle when someone 
tries to start "ksnapshot"...

> I did emerge it with USE=-kipi - why do I need that to take simple
> screenshots?

No clue, maybe to take screenshots when using compositing or similar?

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Joost