Bug 409608

Summary: [wayland] Screenshot an area of the screen
Product: [Applications] Spectacle Reporter: Marvin Hagemeister <hello>
Component: GeneralAssignee: Boudhayan Gupta <me>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: kde
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 19.04.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Marvin Hagemeister 2019-07-08 07:34:31 UTC
SUMMARY

I do a lot of web development and for that I find myself often in the situation to only screenshot certain areas instead of a complete window or the full screen.
Inside spectacle's main window there is a dropdown option for capture mode and it only lists "Full Screen" or "Window Under Cursor" for me. So I guess this issue is sort of a feature request to only capture parts of the screen.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open spectacle
2. Click on the "Area" dropdown
3. Only 2 Options are available ("Full Screen" and "Window Under Cursor")

OBSERVED RESULT

When pressing the "print" button my cursor turns into a cross and I was expecting that drawing a rectangle with the mouse would overlay a marquee and screenshot only that area. Instead nothing happens and the full screen is captured.

EXPECTED RESULT

Drawing a rectangle with the mouse would display an overlay with the selected region and capture only that.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Linux/KDE Plasma: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.59.0
Qt Version: 5.13.0

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

I'm using wayland, not X.
Comment 1 David Redondo 2019-07-08 08:06:02 UTC
Will be available in 19.08 under Wayland
https://phabricator.kde.org/D21042
Comment 2 Marvin Hagemeister 2019-07-08 08:54:07 UTC
Sweet, thanks for the quick response! That's very exciting!