Hi, In December we'll be releasing a new screenshot app for KDE. We've implemented a generic DBus interface for this app, and I'm posting this to the dbus mailing list as others may be interested in this idea and may want to implement it in their own desktop environments.
The service we've implemented is called org.freedesktop.Screenshot (we're using the freedesktop namespace because we truly want the service to be DE or platform agnostic). The XML definition of the interface is available here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KDE/spectacle/master/dbus/org.freedesktop.Screenshot.xml You'll notice that we define 4 different types of screenshots that can be taken, and a StartAgent method. The StartAgent method should just start the application GUI, the other 4 methods should take the appropriate shot, save the image in a default location, and quit. The idea behind this service/interface is that hotkeys can directly map to methods in this interface (for example, pressing the PrintScreen key could invoke org.freedesktop.Screenshot.StartAgent, and any screenshooting application on the system providing this service could be invoked). This takes the burden of configuration away from the hotkey manager. This also maps very well to mobile devices, since a hardware button combination (Power + VolDown on Android, for example) could invoke org.freedesktop.Screenshot.FullScreen. Additionally, since Wayland doesn't have a stable API for taking screenshots yet, Wayland compositors could provide this service, and handle these methods in whatever secure way they see fit (this is not intended to be a primary solution for Wayland, however). Yours, Boudhayan Gupta KDE >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
