GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 302065
export glade file as image, png/jpg
Last modified: 2013-05-20 07:29:22 UTC
i spend far too much time taking screenshots and creating mockups in glade and it would be a huge help if Glade had something like "File, Export..." which would pop a Save As... Dialog and allow to save as PNG/JPEG or any other gdkpixbuf supported image format (but PNG is the most important format for me). It is a pain to have to open a whole other great big program just to take a screenshot of the current window, so I hope you can see how useful a feature like this could be. If you also provided a way to access this functionalty from the command line it could also be very useful for projects that want to generate up to date screenshots of their software on a regularly basis for their documentation or website (and do so in an automatic way, integrated with their build system). I hope I have explained clearly enough but I think this feature could save me huge amounts of time and make my use of glade much more efficient and enjoyable.
moving this request against glade 3 since presumably that is where any new development will occur (and congrat's on getting Glade 3 released)
This proposed feature certainly sounds like it would add value for users. It would also be very possible and easy to implement once offscreen window support is added to GTK+ 2.12.
This has been implemented as a feature of the previewer... to create a screenshot from a glade file: glade-previewer -f file.glade --screenshot file.png