Public bug reported: Ubuntu docs: https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/screen-shot- record.html are incorrectly sayig to mis-use this Gnome feature as a user-focussed 'Make a Screencast'
According to the Gnome developers who implement/maintain this feature, it's only to be used for recording 30-second snippets and reporting bugs in Gnome. By design there is no warning that a screen-recording has been terminated at the 30 seconds mark, and it should (apparently) never be used for general screen-recordings. Ubuntu is encouraging people to mis- use this feature and thereby lose data (many bug reports against Gnome going back 5+ years of people requesting it be changed, closed as WONTFIX / by-design). It's non-trivial to make the feature work as described in the ubuntu docs, and there's no mention that it's hardcoded to 30 seconds max. ** Affects: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-docs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1947607 Title: Docs state to use ctrl-alt-shift-R to record screen recording, which will NEVER work correctly Status in ubuntu-docs package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Ubuntu docs: https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/screen-shot- record.html are incorrectly sayig to mis-use this Gnome feature as a user-focussed 'Make a Screencast' According to the Gnome developers who implement/maintain this feature, it's only to be used for recording 30-second snippets and reporting bugs in Gnome. By design there is no warning that a screen-recording has been terminated at the 30 seconds mark, and it should (apparently) never be used for general screen-recordings. Ubuntu is encouraging people to mis-use this feature and thereby lose data (many bug reports against Gnome going back 5+ years of people requesting it be changed, closed as WONTFIX / by-design). It's non-trivial to make the feature work as described in the ubuntu docs, and there's no mention that it's hardcoded to 30 seconds max. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/1947607/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~documentation-packages Post to : documentation-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~documentation-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp