today’s 30 minute hacks

“I ended up taking two “breaks” during the day today to do “30
minute hacks”. This is where I do something in the codebase that
may or may not end up being useful but which I find interesting to
try out, keeping the exercise to a length of 30 minutes or
less.

“The first one was moving around some of the UI in ksnapshot
(after chasing down an annoyance in kdelibs that would pop up a
notification every time ksnapshot started if you had last saved a
snapshot to a remote location). Here’s the result of that “30
minute hack”:

“The default size is bigger (and it remembers the window size
between restarts), the snapshot thumbnail has a bit of a shadow
around it and the buttons have been re-arranged. Other than the
window size saving, which I consider a bug fix, I’m not sure if the
rest will make it into the next release or not.”

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