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   Wesley Moore (wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 14:59:46 JST Wesley Moore

   Building lots of Linux packages sure makes you notice some weird things. Like why does the KDE screenshot tool spectacle depend on OpenCV (a computer vision library that also pulls in numpy)? Because its image resize function produces nicer results than Qt. https://invent.kde.org/plasma/spectacle/-/merge_requests/340 🙃

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     Adam ♿ (voltagex@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 14:59:43 JST Adam ♿

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     @wezm surely that's worth vendoring or rewriting code

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 15:00:28 JST Rich Felker

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     • Adam ♿

     @wezm @voltagex Why would you want a screenshot tool to do resizing???

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     Wesley Moore (wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 15:00:30 JST Wesley Moore

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     • Adam ♿

     @voltagex on the surface it seems that way, but I imagine it's hard to get just the bit you want out of OpenCV. It does feel like there might be smaller, more focussed options out there that could achieve the same thing.