[Bug 28526] assign print screen key to ksnapshot

[Yuriy Kozlov]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/28526

Comment:
First of all, if you don't know, ctrl+print screen already takes a
screenshot and puts it in the clipboard. (see
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25556)

The benefit of using kscreenshot would be that you can then choose to
save it in a variety of formats.  The only other additional capability
of kscreenshot is to take a shot of only part of the screen, but I don't
see how this would work with a hotkey.

I think it's a potentially good idea, but it depends on what it
involves.  If ksnapshot has to launch every time you hit the key, it
might be a bit slow (if you have a hotkey to take a screenshot, you
expect it to be instant and I don't think this would be) and might
interfere with other programs.  For example, if I hit print screen for
some reason during a game (I don't know what this would do normally), I
don't want it to launch something and interfere.

I think the simple clipboard functionality currently in place is better
for just "Print Screen" (which I guess currently does nothing), but
kscreenshot might be nice for Ctrl+print screen, which currently takes a
screenshot to the clipboard.

It would work better if ksnapshot was running in the background all the
time, but I don't think that's such a good idea.  A good implementation
would be for the user to be able to hide ksnapshot to the system tray
and have a hotkey to take a snapshot.  I just realized that ksnapshot
doesn't have this capability, but I think that's a different bug.
That's definitely something the program should be able to do. I'll file
it later.