GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 434581
Interactive window has no window name in the window list
Last modified: 2008-11-10 01:36:13 UTC
gnome-screenshot does not show on taskbar nor you can switch to it with Alt+Tab. This is very annoying. When you start up gnome-screenshot and after that click to some other window (to set it up for taking shot), you can't easily switch back to gnome-screenshot (it is somewhere below your other windows). You have to minimize all the windows to find it. At least Alt+Tab should work, but every decent window should also have button on taskbar. Taskbar-less windows are one of most annoying microsoft "features" in their control panels.
still an issue in gnome 2.20
i have ubuntu 8.04 alfa 3 and gnome 2.21.4 and i have same problem
This applies only when you run gnome-screenshot with --interactive parameter. Other ways leads to expected result (it sits on the taskbar).
Well if you run it without --interactive parameter, there is nothing to display on taskbar, because it is shell command. The resulting save dialog is displayed on taskbar, that's true, but that's not dependent on the way of taking screenshot (interactive/non-interactive), it's always displayed.
(In reply to comment #4) > Well if you run it without --interactive parameter, there is nothing to display > on taskbar, because it is shell command. Kamil but when you run it without --interactive option, you'll get it sitting on the taskbar. > The resulting save dialog is displayed > on taskbar, that's true, but that's not dependent on the way of taking > screenshot (interactive/non-interactive), it's always displayed. You're wrong, it displays only if you're in non-interactive mode. Just try it.
Created attachment 105775 [details] example.ogv I don't know about you, but in my GNOME 2.20, save dialog displays on taskbar everytime. I have created an example video, have a look.
still an issue in gnome 2.22
Fixed in trunk. But there's no window name :/
I don't understand it, Vincent. If you are a developer, why don't you add a name? :)
(In reply to comment #9) > I don't understand it, Vincent. If you are a developer, why don't you add a > name? :) I was just triaging bugs :-)
This is also making desktop testing difficult for this application. Most of the desktop testing frameworks available for GNOME rely on the AT-SPI layer information. The window name at information is empty for gnome-screenshot. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-utils/+bug/244478
Thanks for the report, fixed in trunk. 2008-11-10 Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc@gnome.org> * gnome-screenshot.c: (create_interactive_dialog): set a meaningful title for the interactive dialog (#434581).