Comments on: If you blog, Shutter will rock your socks

By: Shutter 0.70.1 Disponible « El Blog de Linkertux

Shutter 0.70.1 Disponible « El Blog de Linkertux — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:22:58 +0000

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By: JJMacey

JJMacey — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:56:01 +0000

No Problem!

I’ll be switching back to Ubuntu soon.

By: Stefano Forenza

Stefano Forenza — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:00:02 +0000

I get your point. I usually blog about ubuntu because I do use ubuntu.
I won’t provide instructions for other distros, for example, simply because I couldn’t test these.

While it may be saddening that every new linux application gets more buzz to ubuntu but not to other distros, I’m afraid there’s not much I can do about it.

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:58:12 +0000

@JJMacey: I don’t get you either, but some packagers made mandriva and fedora rpm’s for shutter.

By: JJMacey

JJMacey — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:33:56 +0000

Stefano,

As a Blogging utility I know what you mean.

My point about the getting your app and UBUNTU was that more and more people mention UBUNTU.

I run .rpm versus .deb applications. Do you get my point?

You may want to try to go directly to WordPress or Joomla! with an extension.

By: Stefano Forenza

Stefano Forenza — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:42:31 +0000

I’ll check it out.
Also, seems like it’s *extensively* documented ))
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv/docs/xvdocs.pdf

By: joe

joe — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:18:01 +0000

My favorite screen grab tool is still xv – it’s been around for more than a decade and still works great for basic image viewing and screen grabs.

By: Stefano Forenza

Stefano Forenza — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:56:07 +0000

@JJMacey: utility for blogger and writers is the ease to shot and upload screenshots. Sure, you can take schots of the whole screen, but that’s not always the right thing.
Sometimes you want the reader to focus on this or that detail. That is made easier if you can shot just a part of the screen, and – even better – annotate it with some text or arrows.
Some authors, also, run their boxes at resolutions like 1680×1050 or more. In those situation, a full screen screenshots is un-pratical.

By the way, I am not sure what you mean with:
“One interesting point here is that more and more application posts show that the Ubuntu version of the app is in the UBUNTU repositories, all other come second. LOL!”

By: JJMacey

JJMacey — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:17:15 +0000

Hi,

I do Blog about Linux, and have some other Web Sites going and one of those is also about Linux. For Blogs I use WordPress, and Web Sites – Joomla!. Also for Forums I use SMF.

KSnapshot works for me – but doesn’t really allow me “crop” or cut”. But, I can show the whole shoot in a neat pop-up window on my Web Sites using “shadowbox”. For Blogs I’m not sure what the utility is here?

Imageshack is my Photo Host, so I’m pretty much good to go. I’ve got GIMP, and a hosting service.

Basically, I’m not sure what the Title – If you blog, Shutter will rock your socks – means to me as a Blogger.

One interesting point here is that more and more application posts show that the Ubuntu version of the app is in the UBUNTU repositories, all other come second. LOL!

By: Stefano Forenza

Stefano Forenza — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:09:08 +0000

@Topher: that’s a nice trick. But what I very miss as a blogger, is not really just the upload or resize (wordpress does the thumbnailing for you for example), but a fast way to make annotations on the image. Shutter does take care of that, even if the GUI really need to be improved.