Hi Clemens, I’m not responsible for Spectacle stuff, but as a user I would really like it. I often want to take a screenshot of some small detail, and taking the screenshot twice feels not optimal. The existing rectangle function is nice for repeated screenshots of the same detail, because it remembers the rectangle.
We already have Gwenview and Okular, where one can crop and make annotations, so implementing editing functionality in Spectacle would be a bit redundant. But I think that cropping is so simple that it can be added to Spectacle. Cheers, David On 4/11/20 12:40 PM Clemens Zeidler wrote: > I am a KDE user over 10 years and I first like to thank everybody > involved for their great work and for improving my productivity in my > daily work! > > I would like to contribute to the KDE project and was looking for a good > issue to start with. One thing that always annoyed me, and I think is a > relative easy task to start with, is the missing functionality to select > parts of an already taken screenshots in Spectacle. For example, after > taking a screenshot I would like to be able to select a portion of the > image to copy it into another application. > > I know that there is the rectangle function to take a screenshot. > However, sometimes you need to take a screenshot quickly with a single > key press and IMHO the rectangle feature is not optimal for that. > Furthermore, I found it a bit difficult to discover this feature (only > noticed it when looking for it just now, normally I always press the > screenshot key and do the detour through an image editor). > > From my point of view its also more natural to first take a full > screenshot and then select the needed region. This would also make it > possible copying multiple parts out of the same screenshot. This feature > would be complementary to the existing rectangle function. > > Do you think being able to select a region in the main window would be a > good addition? I haven't thought about any details yet since I first > like to get some feedback if this feature is desirable at all or if it > already has been rejected for other reasons. > > Best, > Clemens
