On Monday 11 November 2002 11:30, Clayton Cornell wrote:
A quick trip through the online docs indicates that there is a program called "ksnapshot" that does what I want, but I can't seem to find it!
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Now, is it possible that SuSE is distributing a "non-standard" version of kdegraphics3? [...]
I got caught by this same trouble when I installed SuSE8.1. Made a bit of a fool of myself insisting that I didn't have KSnapshot, and that my SuSE8.1 was broken. Rest assured... it is there.
Have you installed ALL of KDE? Take a look at the last posting in the discussion I initiated on this in October: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Oct/1594.html
Hmmm... I have to agree -- "this is the dumbest thing I ever heard of..." Actually, I think I've "figured out" what the deal is: First off, on the KDE site, this is listed as package "kdegraphics-3.0.1", but under the SuSE distribution files as "kdegraphics3-3.0.xxx" note the subtle difference beween "ics-3" and "ics3-". So, in retrospect, it appears SuSE has re-packaged the file(s) in this package by splitting it into "graphics3" and "graphics3-extras" Secondly, the post in your reference mentions that he looked at the "provides/requires" section and didn't see an obvious connection, but the "files" tab did show the specific file. This is actually a problem of the yast installer/updater: it doesn't have the "files" tab like konquerer does! [makes it difficult during initial installation to realize you're about to shoot yourself in the foot for not including something...] In any case, I downloaded the "source" rpm for kdegraphics and sure enough it includes the sources for ksnapshot. Under the readme, however, it states "This version is still not good, but I wanted something that doesn't break translations and is still comfortable to old ksnapshot users. Use Pixie if you want more functionality." Aha! sure enough, under the SuSE menu/graphics/viewer there is "pixie plus (express mode)" and "pixie plus image manager", so as a case of, "well, now THAT explains it...", it appears SuSE dropped ksnapshot in favor of pixie -- if you aren't "intimately familier" with the goings on of desktop screen capture [like me] you're probably not aware of pixie in the first place. Now, for some pixie rants :) 1a) Even if you knew it did "screen captures", you wouldn't know to look under "graphics/VIEWERS" [actually, this is still a rant towards SuSE] /utilies or /editors would be better choices 1b) Most likely, you wouldn't know pixie does screen captures, you'd have to be told [by reading messages like this one] 2) whether or not you know if pixie does caps, you wouldn't know it from the initial "toolbar" that shows up -- there is no button for capture; it is only a menu item 3) there doesn't appear to be a way to bind the "capture" facility to the printscreen button [but this might be my unfamiliarity with KDE showing...]