Bug 448404

Summary:	Conceal text when taking screenshot
Product:	[Applications] Spectacle	Reporter:	Felipe Kinoshita <kinofhek>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Boudhayan Gupta <me>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Felipe Kinoshita 2022-01-13 22:12:35 UTC

That could be very useful when taking a screenshot that you don't want your friends/colleagues to know what's written or isn't that important to them to focus on.

Changing all fonts to something like https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Redacted+Script?query=Redacted#standard-styles would work.

OBSERVED RESULT
There's no option to conceal text.

EXPECTED RESULT
There should be an option to conceal text.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-01-13 22:59:05 UTC

You can use one of the annotation tools for this, no? Annotate > Blur/pixelate. Does that work for you?

Comment 2 Felipe Kinoshita 2022-01-13 23:07:15 UTC

Sure but that's considerably more work than simply toggleling an option just for an quick screenshot.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2022-01-13 23:08:44 UTC

Oh so you want it to actually change all system fonts to something obfuscated before taking the screenshot? But that wouldn't work with any app that doesn't respect the system fonts. It would only work if yo only used app KDE and GTK apps, and if all of them changed their fonts instantly. Not sure this could really work...

Comment 4 Felipe Kinoshita 2022-01-13 23:24:33 UTC

Yeah, just an idea and I wanted to report it so it isn't forgotten

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2022-01-13 23:44:48 UTC

Given that it couldn't possibly work with all apps, I don't think it would really work since it would have to in order to not be bypassed. Given that Spectacle already has annotation tools that let you do this, I think it would make more sense to use those. :)