Bug 249906

Summary:	Let user first specify screen grab area and then take screenshot with delay
Product:	[Unmaintained] ksnapshot	Reporter:	Kai Uwe Broulik <KaiUweBroulik2>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Richard Moore <rich>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bugzilla, cfeck, kde
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Kai Uwe Broulik 2010-09-02 14:52:59 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.0) 
OS:                Linux

If you for example want to capture a menu, keyboard shortcuts do not work, so you specify a delay of e.g. 5 seconds and an area about where the menu is to be appear. But if you press “New screenshot” ksnapshot waits 5 seconds and then displays the grid where you specify the area to be captured. This step should be done *before* the timer runs, so it takes the screenshot just when the 5 seconds are over.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Janet 2010-10-08 22:29:33 UTC

What is the advantage of your method compared to the current "set delay - press some keys - menu appears - draw rectangle around menu - doubleclick - have your screenshot"? IMHO the current method is more precise - you don't have to guess where something appears, you see where it appears and then capture that area.

Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2010-12-20 14:40:53 UTC

Okay, I just rethought the idea and noticed that KSnapshot does take a screenshot and then lets you specify the grab area. I thought the screen would “play” while in thie grabbing mode but it is still. So this behavior is fine.

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2010-12-20 15:07:36 UTC

So you are able to create a snapshot of an open menu? I think there are reports about bugs with locks because of the grab Qt does when a menu is open.

Comment 4 Kai Uwe Broulik 2010-12-20 15:09:38 UTC

Hm, lol, okay. It then does not react on Enter/Escape and you have to kill it via Ctrl-Alt-Esc in order to get back to your desktop.

Comment 5 Janet 2010-12-21 22:58:03 UTC

Of course I am able to create a screenshot of an open menu - it works as described in Comment #1. Ksnapshot does not freeze here and you don't have to kill it  - you just have to use a doubleclick to end the action, not a key on the keyboard.

Comment 6 Kai Uwe Broulik 2010-12-21 23:03:34 UTC

It is nowhere said that a double click works (which didn‘t!) and pressing Escape did not do anything (which is said to end the progress). So this is still a bug. Period.

Comment 7 Janet 2010-12-22 06:02:04 UTC

Yes, but that's Bug 210916.

Comment 8 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-04 04:22:06 UTC

Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years and I will be closing this bug. Spectacle is the replacement for ksnapshot now. Please test again and file a new bug for Spectacle if you still have issues. Thank you!