On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:33:29PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Emmanuele Bassi"> > > > > At the moment, it is fairly difficult to do a window selection unless > > > you know the secret password (key combo or CLI parameters). An optional > > > two step process (made optional by defaulting to full screen as it works > > > now) would help with that. > > > > The problem is that I really don't know how to make the Screenshot utility > > work with a two-step flow without having people screaming at my doorstep > > because I disrupted their one-step flow. :-) And I quite agree with them: > > taking a shot of the screen should require the least possible iterations, > > especially if you want to take loads of shots. > > I mentioned above that the second step can be made optional, simply by doing > what we're already doing - take a full screen shot by default, but prompt to > use other tools as well as saving. So if you're taking full screen shots (by > pressing PrintScreen) or current-window shots (by pressing Alt-PrintScreen), > your workflow is not interrupted at all. > > But if you want to grab a region, select a window, or take a video, you can > clicky-click to the next step (which brings you back to the "ready to save" > window again anyway).
Rectangle select has been on my work TODO list for a while. Unfortunately I've not gotten around to it. I imagined it would work much like how Jeff described. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list