On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 09:55 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 13:06 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > > > The 'Take Screenshot' entry in the Applications menu should > > not just automatically take a screenshot of the desktop, as > > it does now. Instead, it should pop up a screenshot dialog > > that looks something like this: > > > > ( ) Take a screenshot of the entire screen > > <i>Press PrintScreen to do this automatically</i> > > ( ) Take a screenshot of a single window > > <i>Press Alt+PrintScreen to do his automatically</i> > > ( ) Take a screenshot of a region of the screen > > > > [ ] Wait [___] seconds before taking screenshot > > it does exactly that since GNOME 2.18 or 2.20. if your 'Take Screenshot' > menu item is not doing that it's either your distribution's fault for > messing around with the default desktop entry file, or yours for doing > the same. :-)
As I said, I'm not on a machine running 2.24 right now. > the default desktop entry for gnome-screenshot uses the --interactive > switch which pops up a dialog for setting up the screenshot; the key > combinations keep working automagically without requiring manual > intervention by default - but you can tweak them to include the > --interactive command line switch (which will, as a bonus, take into > account the other arguments you pass on the command line). I received a separate private email from somebody who said this was the behavior now (yay!), but that it doesn't have the hints that I proposed. Putting hints on the interactive dialog is, I think, the best way to make the key shortcuts discoverable. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
