Comment 41 for bug 74008

The maintainers of compiz and the GNOME screenshot utility both think that the other one should fix it in their end. Ways of break this stalemate include:

* Ubuntu could choose to maintain a patch to the GNOME code even though GNOME refuses to merge it upstream. This sort of makes sense because Ubuntu has already deliberately chosen not to use the default window manager (metacity) so Ubuntu is the entity that caused the screenshoting to break (everything always worked well in the upstream version).

* Writing a decent screenshot plugin for compiz (that looks and feels like the GNOME one because the GNOME utility is pretty nice I think) and have Ubuntu switch to that by default (it's indeed reasonable that each window manager implements code for taking a screenshot, since each window manager stores the window data / bitmaps differently).

* Maybe it will be possible to stop using compiz in Ubuntu once Mutter is released (I've no expertise in this area, I'm really just speculating)?

* Or maybe someone could come up with a good patch that fixes the screenshot utility but that is still acceptable for upstream GNOME.