Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 10:18:50 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 12/04/2016 22:01, 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 - but WTF do they block one another, they're only screen shot
> > programs?
> 
> There doesn't seem to be a good technical reason, maybe it's as simple
> as the maintainer thought there shouldn't be two competing apps with the
> same functionality?
> 
> I unblocked them here, and re-emerged both. Nothing extra was pulled in,
> so there are no conflicting libs.
> 
> Unfortunately I can't attach a screenshot as proof - both remove their
> own window to do the capture :-)

Find a 3rd one to do it with.
Or take a picture with a mobile phone? :)

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Joost