I would like to submit a feature request for the addition of a "pin screenshot" function to Spectacle. This function would allow users to easily "pin" a screenshot onto their screen and adjust the size using the mouse scroll wheel. Both the closed-source screenshot tool SniPaste (only available on Windows & macOS) and the open-source screenshot tool Flameshot provide this feature. I believe many users would be very happy if Spectacle could offer the same functionality. Snipaste: https://www.snipaste.com/ Flameshot: https://flameshot.org/
What's the use case for this feature?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > What's the use case for this feature? Copied from https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469378 : > This is really useful as a way to temporarily hold an image on the screen to be used as a reference or to even compose new images (e.g. side-by-side comparisons, before/after shots, mock-ups, etc.) This nice feature actually turns Spectacle from a mere screenshot tool into a productivity tool: instead of rearranging the layout of windows when comparing different content, just take a screenshot - and pin it! I also recommend another screenshot software with this feature, Snipaste, to see how they demonstrate the impressive convenience: https://www.snipaste.com/
(In reply to Malachi Wu from comment #2) > (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > > What's the use case for this feature? > > Copied from https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469378 : > > > This is really useful as a way to temporarily hold an image on the screen to be used as a reference or to even compose new images (e.g. side-by-side comparisons, before/after shots, mock-ups, etc.) > > This nice feature actually turns Spectacle from a mere screenshot tool into > a productivity tool: instead of rearranging the layout of windows when > comparing different content, just take a screenshot - and pin it! > > I also recommend another screenshot software with this feature, Snipaste, to > see how they demonstrate the impressive convenience: > https://www.snipaste.com/ This Feature Request seems to be a duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469378. Should I mark it as a duplicate? I'm sorry, my English is not very good, and I'm not very familiar with the process.
Indeed it is! However I think your explanation here is better, so let's mark that one as a duplicate of this one, even though that one is older.
*** Bug 469378 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Just adding a vote to this feature request! For the last few years I have been using Flameshot for a bunch of reasons - I found Spectacle quite limited at the time I switched. Spectacle is now officially awesome, having added almost all the Flameshot features I appreciate, and more. The ability to 'Pin' screenshots is an excellent ease-of-use tool in my workflow for many things from databases to css changes - it's a very effective way to do a visual before/after on just about anything: pin a screen shot of how something was (or is meant to be) alongside the current state. I also use it for compound screenshots (aka screenshot inception) for simple step-by-step layouts without firing up gimp or inkscape.
I also want to add on this, the only reason holding me back in using Flameshot is the pinning, it's super productive to take a screenshot and leave it there on screen as reference point while checking something else next to it! I am glad I am not alone in this. We run many KDE workstations and having to install Flameshot and include the custom shortcut it's a pain on large scale deployments. I also considered to just auto-open in another program once the screenshot is taken, but it's a useless step that could be resolved!