DESCRIPTION When taking a region screenshot and then clicking "Annotate", the QR code scanner should run and detect a barcode. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Take a region screenshot of something containing a barcode (Meta+Shift+PtrScr) 2. Click "Annotate" in the resulting save notification OBSERVED RESULT Spectacle opens but does not notify of a QR code EXPECTED RESULT Spectacle opens and tells me that there is a QR code SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System (available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window): KDE Plasma Version: git master as of 2026-06-03 KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version: 6.11.1
This sounds more like a feature request, changing to wishlist. I don't know that this is an implemented thing.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/spectacle/-/merge_requests/569
Git commit 70f74ffa9d6e58dfab76a392ab105b7a84177699 by Kai Uwe Broulik. Committed on 28/07/2026 at 05:26. Pushed by broulik into branch 'master'. Scan for QR code when editing existing image Set the exported image and then run the scanner on it. M +4 -0 src/SpectacleCore.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/spectacle/-/commit/70f74ffa9d6e58dfab76a392ab105b7a84177699
Git commit eb401ec3faa20ca7860148c7b92bf0650f2a3e33 by Kai Uwe Broulik. Committed on 28/07/2026 at 06:26. Pushed by broulik into branch 'Plasma/6.7'. Scan for QR code when editing existing image Set the exported image and then run the scanner on it. (cherry picked from commit 70f74ffa9d6e58dfab76a392ab105b7a84177699) Co-authored-by: Kai Uwe Broulik <kde@privat.broulik.de> M +4 -0 src/SpectacleCore.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/spectacle/-/commit/eb401ec3faa20ca7860148c7b92bf0650f2a3e33