Needs quicklists for Natty

[Jorge Castro]

Binary package hint: shutter

We need quicklists in shutter's .desktop files for Natty since we don't have libappindicator bindings for Perl and lacking the ability to quickly take screenshots with it would be a bad regression. Maybe we could do:

"Take a fullscreen shot"
"Take a window shot"
"Take a menu shot"

or something like that so that when we put Shutter on the Launcher we can at least get this functionality back.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Seems like a reasonable-ish workaround. Here's where one can get information
on these quicklists: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/LauncherAPI#Quicklists

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

Thanks for the pointer. I will look at it as soon as possible.

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

This is how it looks like currently. What do you think? Btw, how are those entries expected to be translated?

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

for translation, it depends. If you have some foo.desktop.in upstream, just having the _Name= instead of Name should strip and translate it (we have a patch for that in ubuntu).

You can look at the gnome-utils package for instance, where upstream calls the po tools to translate the foo.desktop.in in foo.desktop file stripping and adding translation support that is imported into launchpad.

If you need any more help, you can jump in #ayatana on IRC freenode! :)

[Jorge Castro (jorge)]

This looks great Mario, though I am concerned that it might be too long to be "quick". Maybe just the most 4 common ones people would use? Capture area, capture entire screen, select window, and active window perhaps?

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

That would inconvenience the minority of users who asked for the other options; perhaps they are common to them. It would be thus a usability downgrade for them compared to the right-click menu available to them in 10.10.

Here is my dream solution:
In preferences, have a "Quicklist" tab if it is relevant to be shown. In there, display a table of two columns - one of checkmarks, and the other of a quicklist name. Enabling a row will have it show in the unity quicklist, disabling it will grey it out and not show it.

We can set a sensible default of 4 most common to be available there (in my opinion - redo, capture desktop, capture window, capture web) and the rest will be available for configuration. That way, both the majority and minorities will be satisfied.

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

This is a nice idea, but I don't think that this is possible, because
the quicklist-items are defined in the application's .desktop file.
This file is usually readonly. Hence, it does not make sense to have
any graphical interface. I like the idea to add only the 4 most common
options. Let's see how users react and how they use the quicklist
feature at all - it is a new usabilty feature for all of us.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Well it says it supports dynamic ones. That's probably not for Perl though,
I'm guessing.

[Jorge Castro (jorge)]

Let's investigate dynamic quicklists for 11.10. This looks good to me to ship for 11.04, any objections? We're hurting on time here now.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Yes, those four options would be indeed better than nothing.

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

I am preparing a release right now and I will notify Krzysztof Klimonda to push this version into the repo.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package shutter - 0.87.2-0ubuntu1

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shutter (0.87.2-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. (LP: #742815)
  * Implement quicklists for Unity (LP: #738710)
  * Add support for non-ASCII characters to the "open with" menu. (LP: #737428)
 -- Krzysztof Klimonda <email address hidden> Sat, 26 Mar 2011 01:19:18 +0100