GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 740089
"Grab after a delay of..." is disabled for "Select area to grab"
Last modified: 2019-07-24 10:09:15 UTC
...but should be available there as well. Only that way can one open a menu, a combo box, or similar, to then captures its contents.
I completely agree with Gerald. Sometimes you need a delay to show a particular artefact on the screen. Currently, you need to take a screenshot of the entire window or screen and subsequently edit the image in an image editor to achieve the same effect. From a user perspective, this is very inconvenient and laborious.
Yep, having the delay option greyed out once you choose the area selection is totally unexpected for a user. Recently hit that too and used GIMP's screen capture as a workaround. I am sure there was some technical issue resulting in this, but from a user perspective there is no good explanation for this :)
Looks like this was implemented in https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-screenshot/commit/38549a8ee9c715fc6e17851c587d119b53ae6751 , but no actual reason given :(
Philipp, by implemented you mean disabled this feature, correct?
I think it did not make a lot of sense to me back then to select an area and take a screenshot with a delay, but since people seem to have valid use cases for it, I would accept a patch that adds that functionality.
@Robert: Yes, that commit just added the restriction to the UI, so the user cannot enable both area selection and timeout at once. That doesn't mean it did work before, likely it didn't :) @Cosimo: Thanks for the feedback, good to hear there is no strict technical reason for this behavior. For me creating a screenshot with a delay is most of the time because I want to screenshot a menu, popover or anything else that I need to trigger with the mouse after I started the screenshot tool. That's independent of whether I screenshot the entire screen, a single window or an area. So this restriction really was unexpected. Regarding a patch I currentl lack the time to look into this myself :(
Please provide technical reason of disabling delay. Reported bug to launchpad (https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-screenshot/+bug/1751161) - all current Ubuntu versions are affected. First seen on AskUbuntu (https://askubuntu.com/q/1008771/66509).
*** Bug 793736 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
From duplicate bug 793736: Steps to reproduce: 1. Try to make delayed screenshot of area with `gnome-screenshot --area --delay 10` on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, 17.10 or 18.04 LTS. Expected results: User is able to set delay when taking screenshot of area Actual results: User is unable to set delay when taking screenshot of area because of options conflict (but why?): ``` $ gnome-screenshot --area --delay 10 Conflicting options: --area and --delay should not be used at the same time. ```
see also - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screenshot/+bug/1751157
This is now being discussed at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-screenshot/issues/43