| Summary: | In the Region mode, provide an obvious way to reset selection to fullscreen | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] Spectacle | Reporter: | Jin Liu <ad.liu.jin> |
| Component: | General | Assignee: | Noah Davis <noahadvs> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | kde, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | git-master | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
Jin Liu
2025-03-02 07:20:13 UTC
The intended way to do a selection that includes all screens is to remove the selection or manually select the whole region, whichever is best for you. In the latest git master version, the screenshot size label shows the maximum screenshot size when there is no selection. However, that's probably too subtle.
> 3. Currently, right-clicking anywhere would reset the region. But this is unintuitive. If this is by design, then maybe a prompt text like "right-click to reset selection" could be added.
I should probably do that. While it would be more obvious to have a button for selecting all, I want to avoid adding more buttons than absolutely necessary to save space. Because of virtual machine default settings, we want to make spectacle technically usable even if sub-optimal on 800x600 screens.
> 2. Another obvious way is to manually drag from one corner to the other, but currently it results in a region one-pixel smaller than fullscreen.
There should already be behavior that deals with this because it was there in the past, but it seems that it isn't working now.
In the git master version, while on the rectangular region overlay, you can click New Screenshot > Full Screen. That'll take a full screen screenshot and bring you to the viewer window, and from there you can annotate, copy, export, save, etc. Is there a reason this isn't good enough? (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3) > In the git master version, while on the rectangular region overlay, you can > click New Screenshot > Full Screen. That'll take a full screen screenshot > and bring you to the viewer window, and from there you can annotate, copy, > export, save, etc. > > Is there a reason this isn't good enough? 1. That would take a new screenshot, where the screen content might have changed from the original screenshot. 2. Personally, I use the rectangular mode as the single entry point for all Spectacle functions (never managed to remember all different shortcuts). So I'd prefer doing everything in the same UI, instead of some in a different "viewer" UI. A mock-up: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/spectacle/-/issues/20 |