On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:17 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 12:22 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > Hi Jeff; > > > > On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 21:01 +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've outlined a proposal for this at least twice, > but I can't find the original emails, so I'll do > it again. > > When you call up the screenshot utility from the > Applications menu, it should bring up a dialog > asking you what you want to do. The dialog would > look something like this: > > ________________________________________________ > | | > | ( ) Take screenshot of entire screen. | > | * Use PrntScrn to do this at any time. | > | | > | ( ) Take screenshot of a single window. | > | * Use Alt+PrntScrn to do this at any time. | > | | > | [Cancel] [Shoot] | > |________________________________________________| >
Needs a delay option as well probably. ie "wait 3 seconds" and then take the shot. -JP -- JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell, Inc. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list