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[Kevin Gunn <kevin.gunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hoping to land promote mir development branch early this week.
br,kg


On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo <
ricardo.salveti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>