Re: gnome-utils branched for GNOME 2.16

[Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au>]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:33:29PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Emmanuele Bassi">
> 
> > > At the moment, it is fairly difficult to do a window selection unless
> > > you know the secret password (key combo or CLI parameters). An optional
> > > two step process (made optional by defaulting to full screen as it works
> > > now) would help with that.
> > 
> > The problem is that I really don't know how to make the Screenshot utility
> > work with a two-step flow without having people screaming at my doorstep
> > because I disrupted their one-step flow. :-)  And I quite agree with them:
> > taking a shot of the screen should require the least possible iterations,
> > especially if you want to take loads of shots.
> 
> I mentioned above that the second step can be made optional, simply by doing
> what we're already doing - take a full screen shot by default, but prompt to
> use other tools as well as saving. So if you're taking full screen shots (by
> pressing PrintScreen) or current-window shots (by pressing Alt-PrintScreen),
> your workflow is not interrupted at all.
> 
> But if you want to grab a region, select a window, or take a video, you can
> clicky-click to the next step (which brings you back to the "ready to save"
> window again anyway).

Rectangle select has been on my work TODO list for a while.
Unfortunately I've not gotten around to it.

I imagined it would work much like how Jeff described.

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