[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #3813: Screenshot enhancements
- From: "Wim" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:38:03 -0000
#3813: Screenshot enhancements
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Reporter: humdinger | Owner: julun
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/Screenshot | Version: R1/Development
Keywords: | Blockedby:
Platform: All | Blocking:
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Comment(by Wim):
Replying to [comment:13 humdinger]:
> Replying to [comment:6 Wim]:
> > > Add a "Clipboard" in the "Save in:" drop-down.
>
> > I have created a patch that adds a "Copy to clipboard" button. It just
> > doesn't seem logical to put it in the "Save in:" menu. (It is also a
lot
> > more work :))
>
> To me it fits perfectly in "Save in"... :) [[BR]]
> Isn't it just as easy to do the clipboard-copying after receiving the
respective BMessage from the menu item as it is when coming from the
button?
>
The problem I was facing was that when you press the "Save Screenshot"
button a file path is created using the choice from the "Save in:" menu,
so somehow I need to track whether "Clipboard" was selected and make an
exception. Since it would be perfectly possible to have a folder named
"Clipboard" (or anything else I can think of), it would be necessary to
track the selection using a boolean value, and it means that the position
in the menu needs to be known. Anyway, things got a bit tricky, so I just
decided it would be way easier to just have a button. What do you think,
should I try again to place that option inside the "Save In:" menu?
> The "Open with" menu would still be useful in so far as you don't have
to have the app running, because it would be started for you. Also,
depending on how "intelligent" the app is, you don't have to create a new
canvas and set its dimensions before being able to paste from clipboard.
OK, I can see that. Do you know if there currently is an app available
that is intelligent enough do do this? It only makes sense to list apps
that can handle this kind of action.
> Sometimes you have to set up something and wait until some effect takes
place that you want to screenshoot. Re-taking a screenshot isn't then just
one press of a button, but may be much more involved. [[BR]]
> That's why I would love to take a screenshot once and then be able to
decide to pick just one window with/without border or pointer or take the
whole screen instead. (Maybe even crop to one region. Resizing the
Screenshot app window could also resize the screenshot representation...)
>
OK, but if you have the whole screen, you can edit all you wish in a good
image editing app. I like the idea of having apps that are good at one
thing. I can see that it may improve your productivity if you can do all
these tasks in a single app, but it might be easier to add a screenshot
function to an image app than to add image editing capabilities to the
screenshot app.
> > > * double-click: opens in the preferred app. * drag&drop to save,
right-
> > > drag&drop additionally offers file formats.
>
> > Again, does this really improve things over the current way of saving
> > screenshots?
>
> The "double-click to open in the preferred app" isn't very useful, I
agree. [[BR]]
> Drag&drop OTOH is very Haiku-ish, see ShowImage or SoundRecorder. [[BR]]
> You can quickly save to the Desktop or already open folders, you drop
the image into an open graphics editor or FTP window or an email. With the
right-click drag&drop you can also specify the file format within one
action. You don't have to find, aim, click-to-open another menu in a save
dialog.
I was not aware of this. I need to learn how this works in Haiku and how
other apps implement this, then I'll see what I can do.
>
> > > I think it would be useful to have the PRINT key just take a
screenshot
> > > with the preference defaults as usual and have SHIFT+PRINT open the
> > > Screenshot app.
>
> > If you mean the PrtSc key, on my keyboard it has to be used with
shift,
> > or else it is a SysRq.
>
> OK. ALT+PRINT (which would be ALT+SHIFT+PrtSc for you) may be better.
[[BR]]
> Just using PRINT would use the Screenshot app's settings.
Do you think there is consensus for this? Personally I would prefer that
the Screenshot app opens with a screenshot of the desktop if I press
PRINT/PrtSc, like it is now.
>
> Thanks for looking into improving the Screenshot app, BTW!
Your welcome! I hope you don't mind all the questions :)
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