On 24 September 2015 at 16:24, Elias Probst <m...@eliasprobst.eu> wrote: >>3. KHotkeys. Once Spectacle is included into Applications 15.12, I'll >>patch KHotkeys to look for Spectacle rather than KSnapshot. > > Wouldn't it make more sense to have khotkeys launch whatever application > implements a generic DBus interface like org.freedesktop.screenshot through > DBus activation? > > So khotkeys would work in a generic way and it wouldn't matter whether the > WM, a GNOME application, ksnapshot or spectacle is installed/available to > handle screenshot taking.
This does make more sense, but wouldn't an interface under the org.freedesktop namespace need to be vetted by Freedesktop? If someone can take it up with Freedesktop I think this would be a great idea. In fact for Wayland systems, this interface can be implemented by the compositor which can then launch a privileged application to handle the UI flow. -- Boudhayan
