On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:53:14AM -0500, Drake Wilson wrote: > One data point: a screenshot with no window decorations loses a small > amount of information, primarily the caption used for the window. > Interesting ways of working around this might involve storing the > caption as metadata, or storing the screenshot with decorations and > then storing the rectangle corresponding to the client area as > metadata.
You are assuming "one application = one window", aren't you? Anyhow, the whole discussion about windows declaration seems quite useless to me: decorations are just a tiny bit in the information a screenshot can convey to the potential user, especially considering that most screenshot submitters will be using, say, 4 different window managers, most of which will just have the default theme. If decorations really bother people, just add a caption (maybe automatically generated using the yet to come "reportscreenshot" command line utility) stating: "screenshot took under GNOME x.y, using metacity x.y, theme bla". That's it, at least that way we won't hinder screenshot submissions due to too constraining, annoying requirements to *just take a screenshot*. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit the XML stuff is so ... simplistic -- Manoj \/ right keys at the right time
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