Bug 428113

Summary:	-o/--output option not respected
Product:	[Applications] Spectacle	Reporter:	Janek <xerusx>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Boudhayan Gupta <me>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major	CC:	justin.zobel, kde, magunasu.b97, meven29
Priority:	NOR
Version:	20.08.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Janek 2020-10-22 21:26:09 UTC

Specifying a file path for the background mode doesn't work:

spectacle -b --output "/tmp/test.png"

Regardless of the path (I tried many different ones) it saves the file to the pictures folder...

Comment 1 Justin Zobel 2020-10-23 03:17:49 UTC

Confirmed, also effects 20.08.1

Even though it's saying it's going to the Pictures folder in the popup it's just sitting in my home directory.

No matter what directory I'm running spectacle from it always ends up in my home directory, filename is also not respected, it just names it as default.

Comment 2 Justin Zobel 2020-10-23 03:23:51 UTC

Please disregard paragraphs 2 and 3, that was a configuration issue on my end.

Comment 3 Méven Car 2020-10-24 06:11:36 UTC

I don't reproduce with spectacle 20.04, it must be dependent on a setting.

Comment 4 Justin Zobel 2020-10-24 06:35:16 UTC

(In reply to Méven Car from comment #3)
> I don't reproduce with spectacle 20.04, it must be dependent on a setting.

Might have been a regression in 20.08 onwards.

Comment 5 Justin Zobel 2020-10-25 02:17:36 UTC

Tested:
20.04.3 works
20.08.0 doesn't work

So the regression was between 20.04.3 and 20.08.0.

Comment 6 Méven Car 2020-10-25 06:50:00 UTC

(In reply to Justin from comment #5)
> Tested:
> 20.04.3 works
> 20.08.0 doesn't work
> 
> So the regression was between 20.04.3 and 20.08.0.

Thanks for confirming the regression, master is concerned as well.

Comment 7 Méven Car 2020-10-25 06:58:44 UTC

This has already reported a couple of times and fixed in spectacle 20.08.3 (november minor release).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 425573 ***

Comment 8 Magnus Boman 2020-11-10 16:03:33 UTC

This is getting outrageous, this bug was fixed THREE months ago https://invent.kde.org/graphics/spectacle/-/merge_requests/11 and has yet to be included in a release. I am still forced to use spectacle-git so be able to set an output path. For the love of.. *please* do something.

It is NOT fixed in spectacle 20.08.3, --output is still completely ignored!

Comment 9 Christoph Feck 2020-11-10 20:40:27 UTC

Commits to "master" branch will be available with version 20.12.0.