Bug 476056

Summary: Allow scrolling screenshots when using Active Window.
Product: [Applications] Spectacle Reporter: Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell <4wy78uwh>
Component: GeneralAssignee: Noah Davis <noahadvs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: kde, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: git-master   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151300
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Description Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 2023-10-24 17:11:43 UTC
SUMMARY
Allow horizontally and vertically scrolling screenshots when using the Active Window mode in Spectacle.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  Screenshot an application using Active Window (or other window-specific recognition).

OBSERVED RESULT
Spectacle only captures what is currently rendered.

EXPECTED RESULT
It should be able to capture the entirety of the application's GUI, including what is possible to render using scrollbars (be they vertical or horizontal) but aren't currently rendered.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20231022
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.111.0
Qt Version: 5.15.11
Kernel Version: 6.5.8-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core Processor
Memory: 30.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 5700
Manufacturer: ASRock
Product Name: X670E Taichi

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/dzvnlh/comment/f8ax4o2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-10-25 15:38:08 UTC
When I drag a window to be partially offscreen and then take an Active Window screenshot of it in Spectacle, I get the whole window. I'm on Plasma 6 Wayland. Maybe it's an X11-only issue? Can you try on Wayland?
Comment 2 Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 2023-10-28 17:16:03 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> When I drag a window to be partially offscreen and then take an Active
> Window screenshot of it in Spectacle, I get the whole window. I'm on Plasma
> 6 Wayland. Maybe it's an X11-only issue? Can you try on Wayland?

That's working for me; this isn't a bug report (hence "NOR wishlist"). I'm requesting that something like https://nimbusweb.me/guides/screenshot/whats-the-capture-scroll-fragment-mode-for/#b111077191_2176
Comment 3 Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 2023-10-28 17:16:39 UTC
(In reply to `{third: "Beedell", first: "Roke"}`{.JSON5} from comment #2)
> (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> > When I drag a window to be partially offscreen and then take an Active
> > Window screenshot of it in Spectacle, I get the whole window. I'm on Plasma
> > 6 Wayland. Maybe it's an X11-only issue? Can you try on Wayland?
> 
> That's working for me; this isn't a bug report (hence "NOR wishlist"). I'm
> requesting that something like
> https://nimbusweb.me/guides/screenshot/whats-the-capture-scroll-fragment-
> mode-for/#b111077191_2176

*something like, not "that something like"
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Comment 5 Noah Davis 2023-11-12 07:17:01 UTC
I think what he wants is something like what Android screenshots can do. On Android, you can take a scrolling screen shot by initiating the screenshot and then you get a Capture More button or a button with two down arrows on the screenshot. Capturing more allows you to select a larger area outside the current view, much like you can with firefox screenshots. The double down arrow button continually pages down and appends to the current screenshot until you click the record button (actually acts as a stop button). This only works with apps that support the feature, not universally, so it may not be possible for us to implement this kind of feature entirely within spectacle.
Comment 6 Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 2023-11-12 23:21:28 UTC
(In reply to Noah Davis from comment #5)
> I think what he wants is something like what Android screenshots can do. On
> Android, you can take a scrolling screen shot by initiating the screenshot
> and then you get a Capture More button or a button with two down arrows on
> the screenshot. Capturing more allows you to select a larger area outside
> the current view, much like you can with firefox screenshots. The double
> down arrow button continually pages down and appends to the current
> screenshot until you click the record button (actually acts as a stop
> button). This only works with apps that support the feature, not
> universally, so it may not be possible for us to implement this kind of
> feature entirely within spectacle.

Indeed.
Comment 7 Noah Davis 2023-11-22 14:59:41 UTC
I found an earlier bug report for the same feature

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 450719 ***