Bug 455856

Summary:	Introduce "simple mode" in spectacle
Product:	[Applications] Spectacle	Reporter:	Unknown <null>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Boudhayan Gupta <me>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde, nate, null, yerrey
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	22.04.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Other
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	Simple screenshoting mode in windows 11

Description Unknown 2022-06-23 16:44:39 UTC

Created attachment 150102 [details]
Simple screenshoting mode in windows 11

SUMMARY
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It would be nice if spectacle had "simple mode", like in gnome or windows 11. Simple mode will need to look similar to gnome's and win11. How simple mode looks in gnome can be seen here https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/01/twig-28/
How simple mode looks in windows 11 can be seen in attachment.

OBSERVED RESULT
It will be nice to have really simple screenshoting mode like in gnome or windows 11

EXPECTED RESULT
There is no simple mode in spectacle.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Unknown 2022-06-23 16:45:48 UTC

GNOME/Windows 11 save screenshot to clipboard by default.

Comment 2 Yerrey Dev 2022-06-23 21:09:12 UTC

(In reply to soredake from comment #1)
> GNOME/Windows 11 save screenshot to clipboard by default.

The options already exist to make Spectacle very simple and do what comparable tools already do, are you suggesting that the defaults should be different?

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2022-06-24 13:47:22 UTC

We generally don't do this; see https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Design/Lessons_Learned#Basic.2Fadvanced_modes.

If the UI is too complex, the solution is to visually simplify it, not further complexifying it by adding a second mode (and of course a mode switcher UI to control switching between them).

However you're in luck as there is work in progress to redo spectacle's main UI and rectangular region mode to be more like that, and to look a bit simpler. I don't have a timeline though.