https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442784
Edmund Laugasson <edmund.laugas...@protonmail.ch> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Resolution|INTENTIONAL |---
Ever confirmed|0 |1
Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED
--- Comment #2 from Edmund Laugasson <edmund.laugas...@protonmail.ch> ---
> It seems like you're trying to work around the lack of Bug 430465.
That's true: 430465 and current 442784 is two small but crucial features, that
are missing from nowadays screenshot tool. So I finally bothered myself and
reported them.
> If we had that, you might not feel the need for this.
If we had these functionalities, certainly I would not ask them, what we
already have. But we don't have these in Spectacle and therefore I report them.
> Spectacle isn't trying to be a general-purpose image editing tool
That's true - Spectacle is far from image editing tool, even in general
purpose. We have GIMP, Inkscape, etc for that. Spectacle is above all,
screenshotting tool.
> so overall I don't think letting people open existing images with it would
> make sense.
It makes very much sense, if you are making screenshots. Quite often there
could be copied any image and then there is a need to add e.g. steps onto it.
For that, Spectacle has great feature. E.g. ICT teachers, like me, use that
feature often, who prepare step-by-step tutorials.
> There are other better image editing apps for that.
Yes, as mentioned, GIMP, Inkscape, etc are these. But Shutter is great
screenshotting tool, what Spectacle also could be, if to add those two small,
but crucial features:
* crop feature in annotation tool;
* Copy Image from Clipboard, also drag and drop external image into Spectacle;
These small but crucial features doesn't make Spectacle anything, but still
screenshot tool.
Currently is very annoying to open GIMP (or whatever else) for cropping. Then
getting image back to Spectacle is restricted due to inability to Copy Image
from Clipboard (this is yet another scenario, why it would be useful). As we
know, GIMP is quite heavy program compared with Spectacle.
Also is quite annoying to open image and make screenshot in first place - it
would be much more logical to just drag-and-drop the image into Spectacle.
Then it happens, that I use something else, than Spectacle in order to achieve
that smooth workflow. But this isn't what probably Spectacle's developers
expect. Currently Spectacle could be replacement of Shutter under KDE, if those
two small, but crucial features could be implemented.
Besides, Shutter is free and open-source software, it would be easy to look its
source code (https://github.com/shutter-project/shutter) and copy its
functionalities into Spectacle with appropriate adaption.
Besides, similar situation is with Skanlite - it lacks of scanning into PDF,
including multipage PDF - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299517 - it is
reported already in 2012 - soon becomes 10 years already... Let's hope, that
with Spectacle goes better. Besides, I was therefore forced to install
Gtk-based Simple Scan (https://apps.gnome.org/et/app/simple-scan/) in KDE,
where that scan to PDF, including multipage PDF is already implemented.
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