SUMMARY Spectacle used to have a nice UI with a sidebar that allowed to access all important options with a single click. Now the main options are hidden in a "new screenshot" menu, requiring two clicks and navigation in a menu with smaller click targets than the old buttons, making it slower to quickly take a screenshot, e.g., of a certain point in an animation or video. Other parts of the UI are now moved into a settings menu. While options like "quit after save" might be something that is changed rarely, direct access to the "delay before taking the screenshot" was very useful. I am not sure what the rationale for the changes were, but I think in most my use-cases I have more clicks and the bit of horizontal space for the preview doesn't seem a too big advantage when I also can resize the window. One could consider putting the elements at top or bottom, such that a windows with a default ratio like 1:1 or 4:3 would have space for buttons and a widescreen screenshot at the same width as it has with the version 6.5.1 UI. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 13 KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0 Qt Version: 6.9.2 Graphics Platform: X11 OTHER The number input widget looks a bit broken inside the menu. Do you know against which KDE/Plasma component I should report a bug for that?
I'm changing this from normal to wishlist, since it's a feature request rather than a bug. To be honest, I don't think there's a way to recreate the old UI entirely from the development side. We can consider (re)adding a toolbar, like other KDE apps have, which might be able to be customized. I'll let the developers weigh in on this. (In reply to Alex from comment #0) > OTHER > The number input widget looks a bit broken inside the menu. Do you know > against which KDE/Plasma component I should report a bug for that? I'm not sure what widget you're referring to, i don't see a widget by that name in the add/remove ui and I don't see anything like that in my panel. All widgets are under plasmashell, so you can create a bug under plasmashell - general. We can recategorize it if necessary.
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Sure, I didn't change much fields, wishlist is fine. > To be honest, I don't think there's a way to recreate the old UI entirely from the development side. We can consider (re)adding a toolbar, like other KDE apps have, which might be able to be customized. I'll let the developers weigh in on this. I think a few actions should be directly accessible. I mostly need new screenshot (rectangular) and changing the delay. > I'm not sure what widget you're referring to, i don't see a widget by that name in the add/remove ui and I don't see anything like that in my panel. All widgets are under plasmashell, so you can create a bug under plasmashell - general. We can recategorize it if necessary. The settings menu has a "delay:" entry with a number input widget to the right. That one looks off.
Created attachment 186501 [details] The settings menu looking broken in the line where it has a number input The number input seems to break the menu. The black part is a black background in the spectacle window, the white part a white background of a window behind the spectacle window. The parts are transparent expect for the number widget and the label (without background)
(In reply to Alex from comment #3) > The settings menu has a "delay:" entry with a number input widget to the > right. That one looks off. Thanks for clarifying. Since that's a separate issue from making more options available on the toolbar, please open a new bug report for it. Thanks.