On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <<a href="mailto:bjt23@cornell.edu">bjt23@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Jérôme Guelfucci wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 8:49 PM, samuel <<a href="mailto:samuel.verstraete@gmail.com">samuel.verstraete@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Jérôme Guelfucci<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:jerome.guelfucci@gmail.com">jerome.guelfucci@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <<a href="mailto:bjt23@cornell.edu">bjt23@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>> Jérôme Guelfucci wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>>> I also propose to add the executable code to xfce-utils, so that one<br>
>>>>> can take screenshots with a default installation of xfce, without<br>
>>>>> installing another plugin.<br>
>>>> No, definitely not. The goal here should be to make xfce-utils as small<br>
>>>> as possible, not bloat it with stuff people may not need. I'd be in<br>
>>>> favor of patches that push us toward completely eliminating xfce-utils,<br>
>>>> not things that make it larger.<br>
>>><br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">>>> Sorry, I did not know about this plan. I only proposed this because I<br>
>>> saw that "little applications" giving interesting features like xfrun<br>
>>> and xfce-about are part of this package. However, I still think that<br>
>>> the PrtScreen keybinding should work by default, even if xfce-utils is<br>
>>> not the solution<br>
>> just kill the PrtScreen button, no one uses it anyway... seriously, i<br>
>> don't think enabling the print screen button will help the faq getting<br>
>> any shorter (except that we will be able to simplify the faq entry for<br>
>> screenshots)... Over the years I've told a lot of users they can use<br>
>> the PrtScreen button on that other operating system... they didn't<br>
>> know ;) no one even remembers that old thing there on the left upper<br>
>> corner of the keyboard... it's out of reach i guess ;) (maybe our<br>
>> fingers got shorter due to darwin)<br>
>><br>
>> anyway... i guess that makes me agree with brian. If anything, the<br>
>> screenshooter plugin should provide the printscreen button<br>
>> capturing...<br>
>> And making the screenshooter plugin installed and enabled by default<br>
>> is a distro's job... not one for xfce<br>
><br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Ok, you convinced me ! So, let's forget the last paragraph of my first<br>
> mail and just focus on the keybinding thing.<br>
><br>
> Can I submit a patch to add the screenshooter to the list of<br>
> keybindings ? Or there is a better way of doing this ?<br>
<br>
</div>Let's see where Stephan's new keybindings proposal goes. Statically<br>
adding keybindings for apps that may or may not be installed sounds like<br>
it might not be the best idea. Using xfconf for these sorts of things<br>
in a generic way that any app can set seems like a better plan.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
-brian<br>
<br>
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