[request] select region after capture

Submitted by grayich

Assigned to Xfce Bug Triage

Link to original bug (#15801)

Description

now works like this: select region -> delay -> done (this is often uncomfortable)

need like this: delay -> screenshot fullscreen -> select a region in the finished screenshot of the entire screen -> done

or, which is always better, done optionally )

grateful

Version: 1.9.5

Andre Miranda @andreldm said:

(In reply to grayich from comment 0)

need like this: delay -> screenshot fullscreen -> select a region in the finished screenshot of the entire screen -> done

You can use: sleep 5; xfce4-screenshooter -f Once the screenshot is taken select "Open with: GIMP" (or whatever image editing app you fancy) then crop the selection you need.

I'm not saying screenshooter will never have an option to edit screenshots, but I'm not motivated to implement this because we may start with a cropping option, then people will want to draw red rectangles, then arrows, then text, then emojis.... In the end, screenshooter will have its own built-in gimp and that goes against the "do one thing and do it well" philosophy that is more or less followed by Xfce.

grayich said:

the current version of the region is practically not in demand because can't see what to crop

for example, you need to take a picture of a drop-down menu it takes time to call up the menu here the delay option will be really useful

I didn’t invent it this is how most screen capture programs work.

Yousuf Philips @philipzae said:

Andre has agreed on IRC that this can be implemented ( delay -> select region -> capture ) and in order to preserve the current behaviour we'd have a checkbox and CLI option to toggle between the two behaviours. Either this one or my bug (bug 16494) should be closed as a duplicate.

Andre Miranda @andreldm closed a related bug:

*** Bug 16494 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

narun4sk said:

Since #16494 has been closed I will add a snippet of my comment here:

I know for sure that functionality was different some time ago, thus the screenshots were taken immediately after the region has been selected.

Current behaviour when selecting a region can be replicated by: xfce4-screenshooter -rd <whatever value is set in "Delay before capturing" field>

Should be: xfce4-screenshooter -r

Thank you

added 5. CLI 5. Region Selection labels

added 2. Enhancement label

@andreldm: tagging you in.

added 5. User Experience (UX) label

This is over-complication imo and what you have (basic) image editors for.

Are you suggesting the removal of select region completely, as this is a basic feature of a screenshooting tool. This enhancement is about improving the user experience for what most users would consider the correct behaviour of the delay not being after the region selection, as most other screenshooters have it.

I've said it multiple times: I'm not going to embedded an image editor in screenshooter, that's much more complex than screenshooting. Rectangle region selection is useful when you don't need precision cropping, when one needs pixel-precision then go for an image editor.

I know gimp sucks even for basic stuff, for example, add arrows, rectangles, ellipses, etc. Ideally we'd have a basic image editor for Xfce (e.g. xfce4-paint) that could be used as a screenshooter companion, until that becomes true I can only recommend 3rd party editors.

closed