Bug 458088

Summary:	Simplify Spectacle and extend announce mode
Product:	[Applications] Spectacle	Reporter:	andreas_k <andreas_k>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Boudhayan Gupta <me>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	antonio.prcela, kde, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description andreas_k 2022-08-20 09:28:18 UTC

SUMMARY
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There are 3-4 different capture modes within spectacle:
- Full Screen
- Rectangular Region
- Active Window
- Window under Curser
- Multimonitor stuff
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When I start's spectacle with print key the fullscreen was saved and than I can select the capture mode I really want.

Why can't it be the other way around.
1. click Print
2. screenshot of the fullscreen
3. I can select at the preview area the window I want to save, or I switch to announce mode to crop the window, ...

At kwin you can do "everything" with each element at the screen. Compare to spectacle which save a stupid image of the screen.

Comment 1 Antonio Prcela 2022-08-21 11:30:29 UTC

Announce mode? You mean annotate?

You can use, and change, any of the preconfigured keyboard shortcuts to use a specific capture mode.

> 3. I can select at the preview area the window I want to save
I'm not sure how to make this, it sounds like some image recognition tool to recognize windows in a picture. I'd suggest using either the above suggestion with shortcuts or take fullscreen and crop what you need.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2022-08-23 05:58:09 UTC

You can do that.

Spectacle > Configure Spectacle > When Launching Spectacle > Do not take a screenshot automatically. And then take a rectangular region screenshot manually after you launch the app.