På Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:41:03AM -0400, JP Rosevear skrev:
> On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:17 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 12:22 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > > Hi Jeff;
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 21:01 +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've outlined a proposal for this at least twice,
> > but I can't find the original emails, so I'll do
> > it again.
> >
> > When you call up the screenshot utility from the
> > Applications menu, it should bring up a dialog
> > asking you what you want to do. The dialog would
> > look something like this:
> >
> > ________________________________________________
> > | |
> > | ( ) Take screenshot of entire screen. |
> > | * Use PrntScrn to do this at any time. |
> > | |
> > | ( ) Take screenshot of a single window. |
> > | * Use Alt+PrntScrn to do this at any time. |
> > | |
> > | [Cancel] [Shoot] |
> > |________________________________________________|
> >
>
> Needs a delay option as well probably. ie "wait 3 seconds" and then
> take the shot.
That would be a welcome addition, yes. However, please make it a global
option in the dialog instead of the double timeout widgets in Gimp's 2.2
series...
mvrgr, Wouter
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