ok. after last night we had a "n00b" on irc asking "why doesnt printscreen work?" - i've heard this several times before actually... i added a shot module to e17 proper. how is this different to the screenshot module in e-modules-extra?
1. doesnt run any external processes. e screenshots itself directly. ecore_x has all the goodies needed. 2. it offers an actual file selector dialog to select the destination of the screnshot if saved to disk 3. it offers you a preview of the whole screenshot (scaled down) 4. it offers you a choice of which screen (if you have xinerama/multiple screens) you wish to save (or all of them together) with a preview highlight of which one is to be saved 5. offers a simple quality choice radio list at time of screenshot 6. this is the important bit... it offers a SHARE button... yes.. social network buzzword compliance here. share... what does this do? it takes your screenshot and UPLOADS it to enlightenment.org... and gives you a URL once uploaded to share with your friends and whoever... of your wonderful sexy screeniepoos. much like imageshack or imgur or pastebin and so on... finally people can stop asking "how do i upload this screenshot?". it's built in. cool bit is... ALL the screenshots people upload are nicely public here: http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/ of course this can be abused - and frankly unless we add authentication and make people register and go through hoops... there is not much we can do. even that is open to abuse. at least the server side limits the max size of a screenshot and it also ensures the file uploaded has an exact file type (png or jpeg). it doesnt rely on mimetypes provided, but checks the magic numbers in the file. we may have to police whats uploaded at some point and delete offending things... but hey... this means we can easily gather quite a lot of awesome user screenshots now :) also next time i say "show me what you are talking about"... its as easy as a keypress or 2 away. :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
