https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471387
--- Comment #10 from DeKay <darrylkac...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Noah Davis from comment #4) > I'm not quite sure what we should do. On one hand, adding some kind of way > to open an existing image in the GUI would technically be very easy. On the > other, it would take up space in the UI that could be used for a more useful > control later. > > The annotation editor is for quickly annotating screenshots without having > to save first. The --edit-existing CLI option mainly exists so that you can > click an "Annotate" button in system notifications for screenshots when > using global shortcuts or the --background CLI option. We don't necessarily > need a CLI for that, but having the CLI makes testing much easier. > > There are dedicated image editors with more functionality and more editing > focused user interfaces than Spectacle will ever have, so I think it could > be fair to tell people to use them instead. However, maybe you want this > because Spectacle's annotation UI is more desirable in certain ways than the > image editors you know? Perhaps if we add a hamburger button (main menu > button), we could move some of the existing less commonly used controls > there and then we'd have room to add a GUI option to open an image file. One way to add this to Spectacle without cluttering the GUI would be via Drag & Drop. That isn't very discoverable but it is better than a CLI-only option. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
