Bug#821861: Drop gnome-screenshot from gnome-core

[Michael Biebl]

Am 20.04.2016 um 11:22 schrieb Dmitry Shachnev:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 02:06:54AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> GNOME shell has builtin screenshot functionality and gnome-screenshot is
>> no longer used.
>> We should therefor drop it from the gnome-core meta package.
>>
>> The gnome-flashback session probably still want's to pull it in.
>> CCing mitya57 at debian.org
> 
> GNOME Flashback is compatible with GNOME Shell: it implements the
> org.gnome.Shell.Screenshot D-Bus interface, and gnome-settings-daemon can
> use it. So no objections from me _here_.

Ah, good to know. So it has a builtin screenshot functionality now as well.

> However, I still find gnome-screenshot very useful: it allows one to set
> timeout before screenshot, include/exclude window border, set an effect,
> and also has an --interactive mode: much more than what one can achieve
> with bare gnome-settings-daemon keybindings.
> 
> Also, according to a recent upstream commit [1], they still consider
> gnome-screenshot a compulsory part of GNOME. Shall we really drop it?

My attempt is to trim down the footprint of gnome-core (and maybe gnome)
a bit.
If we keep gnome-screenshot as a dependency, we should at least move it
to the full-blown gnome metapackage and make it a Recommends or Suggests
only, I think.
I have to admit, that I haven't used gnome-screenshot in a very long time.

Regards,
Michael


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