SUMMARY For a company-internal tool, we need to invoke the desktop environment's screen shooter in region capture mode and save the resulting image to a file. Prior to Spectacle's region mode rewrite some versions ago, the following call worked as expected in the Plasma session: $ spectacle -r -b -i -n -o result.png Expanding: $ spectacle --region --background --new-instance --nonotify --output result.png But after the changes, the user can now exit the region capture mode with a different action, such as “Copy” or “Save as”. In these cases, the --output flag is ignored, and the tool does not get the resulting image. If the user knows to press Enter or click “Save”, the tool can still be used as before, but all the extra options in an otherwise predetermined flow can lead to misunderstanding from users. OBSERVED RESULT The region mode allows exiting Spectacle in ways that seem like confirmation, but do not fulfill the requested --output flag. EXPECTED RESULT Ideally, when the --output flag is set, Spectacle's region mode would not display finalizing actions other than “Save”. I also wonder whether cancellation, such an Esc key press, should result in a non-zero return code from Spectacle. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Reproducible on my personal device: Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250227 KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0 Qt Version: 6.8.2 Kernel Version: 6.13.4-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Reporting now because https://invent.kde.org/graphics/spectacle/-/merge_requests/431 potentially worsens this problem by adding mode switch buttons.