Hi, Given the way Spectacle is architected this is very much possible from a technical standpoint. I can't think of a very good UX for this though. If someone can come up with a good UX for this, implementing it won't be too hard - at least for me.
Thanks, Boudhayan On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 13:01, David Hurka <david.hu...@mailbox.org> wrote: > 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 > > > > >
