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[Ricardo Salveti de Araujo <ricardo.salveti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Alan Pope <alan.pope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Michał Sawicz
> <michal.sawicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 23.02.2014 23:38, Sebastian Gomułka wrote:
>>>
>>> on Mako it capture only black screen - image#205
>>
>>
>> I'm afraid phablet-screenshot is not gonna work with android 4.4.2-based
>> images.
>
> That's an unfortunate regression. I use screenshots heavily (see
> http://popey.com/~alan/phablet/gallery.php) for filing bugs, reviewing
> changes and promoting apps. Shaky-cam photos of the phone are
> significantly more time consuming to take, lower quality & are less
> appealing than raw screenshots from the device.

It's a regression, but an expected one, as we knew phablet-screenshot
was using an unsupported path (dumping framebuffer directly).
Unfortunately both mako and flo dropped the support for the
framebuffer device, and now they can only work properly via hwcomposer
(and that's why you now need Mir).

>> There's branches for native screenshotting and -casting in mir that should
>> happen somewhat soon, hopefully.
>
> Kevin: Can we get something more definitive than "soon"?
>
> I realise that screenshots are probably lower priority than everything
> else on the list, but technically this *is* a regression in my
> opinion.

The good news is that I requested this feature last week and it seems
to be merged in mir/devel already
(https://code.launchpad.net/~kdub/mir/mirscreencast-limited-capture/+merge/207314).

Kevin, when do you expect to land/release Mir 0.1.6?

Cheers,
-- 
Ricardo Salveti de Araujo