severity 674556 important thanks
Hi, i'd like to add more information to this bug report. First of all i can confirm the bug and it's reproducible but i disagree with its severity. I hope i can convince you why i think the severity isn't justified. The bug was already reported to the Ubuntu bug tracker [1] in November 2009 and also to the official one at sourceforge.net in May 2011 [2]. The patches which were mentioned by Gregor are already included in Debian and fix other issues. Although it's true that the top panel in Gnome 3 vanishes if you use the default values, you can always uncheck Reset Capture Area and Outline Capture Area on Screen under Advanced Settings -> Misc. See also [3]. This restores the expected behaviour of recordmydesktop. Even with the default values set, it's always possible to press the Super/Linux-Key to start an application like your gnome-terminal and kill gtk-recordmydesktop or use ALT+F2 to enter a command. But this isn't even necessary because you can start and stop the application by clicking on the recording icon in your notification area on the bottom of your desktop. Last but not least most of the time i use window managers like Openbox and gtk-recordmydesktop is working just fine for this use case which makes it not unusable at all. All in all there are too many use cases and workarounds for which recordmydesktop is still useful. It's definitely a bug which should be fixed but IMHO shouldn't be release critical. Btw an alternative to recordmydesktop is byzanz which i intend to adopt in the near future. ;) Regards Markus [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/recordmydesktop/+bug/483325 [2] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3301563&group_id=172357&atid=861428 [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/recordmydesktop/+bug/483325/comments/4
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