Re: [RULE] About the screenshot tool

[Ingo Lantschner]

Hi,
I read now the different mail from this and the other thread ,
which deals with the screenshot-program 3 times - I think I understood
most of it now.  Pls.  allow me to summarize:

1. The Script screenshot_dialog works fine, both from the technical and
usability point of view.

2. The Script depends on perl, which causes two problems:
        a. 56 MB of files
        b. a -nodep option, which is not a good choice

So the 2.a.-problem is a small one. In the very concrete case of the
zambia:project the people will not need perl (again: they write letters
and calculate spreadsheets, NO email, NO network). On the other side,
these machines have 1,6 GB HDs - so 56 MB is not a problem at all. So
for this case, its ok. And for the future, isolated Workstations without
LAN/WAN will not be the aim, we are working for - so perl will be needed
anyway - I guess.

The 2.b. problem is a real problem - but it may be possible, that in
this case the problem was sitting in front of the computer :-) I will
try to give some more details:

"rpm -i perl ..." required something like "perl(Filter:...)"  and I
could not find this package. I even searched inside of a file, I once
created with "rpm -qpli >rpms.txt"  - nothing. Finally I thought I will
install "rpm -ivh perl-Filter..." which requiresto install perl before.
So perl depends on perl-Filter and perl-Filter depends on perl. Finally
I did:
        rpm -ivh perl --nodeps
        rpm -ivh perl-Filter
and anything was fine - at least for screenshooting.

Bottomline: IMHO this script is ok as it is. If we can clarify this
2.b.-problem, we may omit troubles for the future.

Bye, Ingo.

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