It's what KSnapshot did, what I get when pressing Meta+Print on Windows 10, and as far as I can tell is what macOS is doing. gnome-screenshot also defaults to hiding the cursor. More often than not, the cursor is placed at a random location and will unintentionally obscure what's on the screenshot. Only in selected cases the cursor is positioned exactly over an element on purpose, in which case the user could still check the option to include it manually. Let's optimize for the common use case, and what other platforms converged to.
+1. If everyone else does it this way, let's be consistent.
Go ahead and submit the patch if you'd like. I'm preparing for Akademy and don't really have the time at the moment.
Another case of yay or nay. Snipping tool in Windows uses no pointer by default. ShareX includes pointer by default. I don't know if KSnapshot did it by default or not. https://invent.kde.org/graphics/spectacle/-/blob/master/src/Gui/SettingsDialog/spectacle.kcfg#L60
KSnapshot did hide it by default. Go ahead and submit a patch for this if you'd like. Feels like people would prefer it as the default setting.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #4) > KSnapshot did hide it by default. > > Go ahead and submit a patch for this if you'd like. Feels like people would > prefer it as the default setting. https://invent.kde.org/graphics/spectacle/-/merge_requests/7 Let's see how the feedback goes :)
Git commit b9b78767a58a39b15521709dc7b95d5dd7a43bb2 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Antonio Prcela. Committed on 20/07/2020 at 04:34. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'release/20.08'. Hide mouse pointer by default FIXED-IN: 20.08.0 M +1 -1 src/Gui/SettingsDialog/spectacle.kcfg https://invent.kde.org/graphics/spectacle/commit/b9b78767a58a39b15521709dc7b95d5dd7a43bb2