[proposal] Merge istanbul into gnome-screenshot or include it in gnome-utils?

[Andrew SB]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Danny Piccirillo
<danny.piccirillo at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/istanbul/+bug/404778
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589841
> Apparently this almost happened: someone was going to add a launcher to
> gnome-screenshot for istanbul but somehow never did. I lack the skills, but
> is anybody else able to do this?

It's too late do something like this for Karmic and merging it into
gnome-screenshot or including it in gnome-utils is certainly something
better done upstream.

Whether Ubuntu should include a desktop recording app in its default
install in the future is another matter. Perhaps you should should
open an idea on Brainstorm or begin working on a more detailed spec
[1] for discussion at UDS.

Though something that needs to be considered if you'd like to see
something like Istanbul in the default desktop is that desktop
recorders don't seem to work reliably on every system. I personally
think it would be problematic to include something that will not work
for a wide group of users...

- Andrew

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SpecSpec