GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 350081
Window schreenshot is supported via shortcut and not via gui.
Last modified: 2006-11-30 23:24:41 UTC
The screenshot tool supports window-only screenshot via key shortcut (I realized it using the help to figure out the product name for bugzilla in order to feature request :-), but this feature is not shown through the GUI. I think that it is a useful feature that should be exposed in the default window. (Maybe area selection tool like the lastest release of byzanz would be useful too.)
there is no UI shown before the screenshot is taken; the only UI is shown after the screenshot has already been taken. there's a command line switch for it (--window). You can add a launcher for it inside the menu, or use Alt+F2 to launch gnome-screenshot --window. I'd even consider adding a .desktop file to the main distribution, with it's visibility turned off by default.
I think I didn't explained very well. The gnome-screenshot tool (which has a .desktop entry in the application menu), takes the whole screen, and there is no option to take a window-only screenshot. What I'm suggesting is to have a checkbox (or whatever) to let the user choose window or whole screen in the same window. Adding a new entry on the application menu for the window-only interface, seems a unnecesary waste of menu space for two applications that does almost the same thing from a user point of view.
you did explain very well. the point is: there is no such UI for taking a screenshot of the window because the only UI existing is the one that *saves* a screenshot that has already been done. creating a dialog box containing a single check box saying "Take a screenshot of the currenly selected window" is a complete waste of screen space; also, it disrupts the flow of the user, since now you have two dialogs to look at; and, finally, if I were to add a new dialog it would be brought up to focus by the window manager and you would have to re-select the window you want to take the screenshot of. so, either we add a new launcher, called "Take Screenshot of Current Window" or we continue to rely on the --window switch of the gnome-screenshot binary.
I don't think that most people would discover the --window CLI by themselves, I neither think that most peple would discover that shift+print screen open the --window dialog, so I think that we should somehow expose that feature in an obvious visual way. With that checkbox (or any other selection widget) I didn't meant two dialogs. Right now we have a dialog to store the screeshot of the whole screen, right? the user can go through the menu, and then it shows a dialog to store the screenshot. What I suggested is the user could select _in the same dialog where the screenshot preview is_ if he want to store the whole screen or the window only screenshot. When he selects one of the both the preview box shows him the screenshot made. I can't see flow disruption there, the default option would be whole screen, and most people would keep selecting the name of the file and storing it as the only operation needed to be performed. Maybe I'm missing a technical problem that make this impossible to do (the whole screen capture and window only capture being made at the same time for example).
cleaning up gnome-utils bugs. marking as duplicate of bug #331644. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 331644 ***