screenshot plugin and xfmenu grab

[SJM Arts]

----- Original Message -----
From: Jani Monoses <jani.monoses at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, March 12, 2006 12:57 pm
Subject: Re: screenshot plugin and xfmenu grab
> 
> > I haven't looked at the code, but what is the advantage of making 
> this a 
> > plugin? I would think a screenshot utility that can be run from a 
> > launcher will work just as well and it has the advantage of being 
> able 
> > to bind it to a shortcut.
> 
> Indeed, that would be nicer. I started from the existing plugin and 
> while thinking it should eventually be an external plugin callable 
> standalone I did not think of actually dropping the plugin 
> capabilities.
> One thing I see as and advantage for the plugin as that one could 
> configure it instead of the launcher on right click, with no need for
> separate config-file handling.
> show-desktop and the action plugins are can also be done using 
> small 
> progs which could be separately bound to keys, I thought of the 
> screenshot plugin along similar lines.
> 
> Jani

When you link your screenshot program to libxfce4mcs, then you can use
that to read the channels.
A separate mcs-plugin for its configuration (or an extention to an
existing plugin), could handle writing the channels.

Or am i thinking past a forbidden path?

Stephan