ANNOUNCEMENT: Deprecating the Peek project
With this announcement I officially declare the Peek project deprecated. This is something I should have done for a while now, but I always told myself that I will eventually do a last release, fixing some issues. As you know this never happened. The last release has been 2 years ago, and even then activity was not very high, while issue reported piled up. The reason for the deprecation are manifold, but I try to explain. Peek started out as a small project with two goals: 1. To solve a personal itch for a small, simple screen recording tool that can record into animated GIF, because at the time of creation sharing proper videos often was not possible on many platforms. My main use was short videos of partial UI elements, and that is what I used Peek for. 2. As an experiment if it would be doable to implement the single window user interface Peek provides using standard Gtk3 widgets. I really did not expect the kind of interest Peek gained. I am very thankful to everyone who used this software and who gave me feedback. But now I am convinced that Peek faces some issues that are not solvable. The first goal in itself has become mostly obsolete. GIF was never chosen because it is a great format for videos, indeed it is very much unsuited for the purpose. It was chosen because it provided web compatibility. And I think the web today has much better for support for video formats. I never had intended Peek to become a feature-complete screen recording tool. It had always been
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Deprecating the Peek project
With this announcement I officially declare the Peek project deprecated. This is something I should have done for a while now, but I always told myself that I will eventually do a last release, fixing some issues. As you know this never happened. The last release has been 2 years ago, and even then activity was not very high, while issue reported piled up. The reason for the deprecation are manifold, but I try to explain. Peek started out as a small project with two goals: 1. To solve a personal itch for a small, simple screen recording tool that can record into animated GIF, because at the time of creation sharing proper videos often was not possible on many platforms. My main use was short videos of partial UI elements, and that is what I used Peek for. 2. As an experiment if it would be doable to implement the single window user interface Peek provides using standard Gtk3 widgets. I really did not expect the kind of interest Peek gained. I am very thankful to everyone who used this software and who gave me feedback. But now I am convinced that Peek faces some issues that are not solvable. The first goal in itself has become mostly obsolete. GIF was never chosen because it is a great format for videos, indeed it is very much unsuited for the purpose. It was chosen because it provided web compatibility. And I think the web today has much better for support for video formats. I never had intended Peek to become a feature-complete screen recording tool. It had always been
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