This will also make it easier to use the new "area" function; simply pressing Print Screen and then "take another screenshot", which should invoke "gnome-screenshot -i" is the easiest way to grab an area of the screen.

(In reply to comment #0)
> An Ubuntu user requests the following
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-utils/+bug/125127):
> 
> Background: if I want to make an image of a single window (happens quite
> often), I can't use the "Print Screen" button, but have to start the screenshot
> app via Applications -> Accessories -> Make Screenshot ; and even then I only
> have "one shot": if the created screenshot doesn't look good, I have to start
> the screenshot app _again_! That's very unhandy. If there would be a button
> like "Make another screenshot" that would be easier; and also I could launch
> the app with the "Print Screen" button and then ignore the created
> fullscreen-shot and hit "New shot" and select the desired options.
> 

I'm not in linux right now, but if I recall right using ALT+PrintScreen would just screenshot the focused window.

Nelson: you are correct. However, the new "area" function isn't bound to a key by default; I could bind it so, of course, but having PrtSc, alt+PrtSc, and <something else>+PrtSc all bound seems rather inelegant to me!

If Bug 579110 were implemented, would you still need this?  You could just press PrtScrn multiple times and then choose the type of screenshot afterwards.

*** Bug 585183 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

that would be nice, e.g. for a workflow of making multiple screenshots and saving it into a document or html page.

uhm ... i need to retract my comment. shift-prtsc is now bound to take a screenshot of an area and automatically save a file. which i find nicer than everything above. i would close this one.

This request is tracked in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-screenshot/issues/25 now.