https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471387
--- Comment #5 from Yannis <ya...@mailbox.org> --- (In reply to Noah Davis from comment #4) > 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. I do find the annotation UI much more desirable than alternatives. I also use ShareX on Windows (a FOSS program) for the same purpose, which likewise has a strong annotation editor built in. It is the focus on the annotation experience that makes it so useful. In particular, it is useful for quickly hiding confidential information (by blurring or pixellating), which is very useful in my working environment. Oftentimes, it is unclear which screenshots will be the most useful so it is only worth blurring/pixellating confidential text at the time of sharing - which is later than whenever the screenshot was captured. I also occasionally use it for demonstration purposes, so I would again be modifying an image hours/days after I have captured and stored it, adding arrows, and saving a separate copy. I agree that the existing image editor is a more niche feature, so it would be a good fit for the hamburger menu as far as placing a button goes. There are two more key considerations: 1. That passing an image to spectacle with 'Open with' should open it in editing mode. I am happy to log a separate issue for this if it would be useful to keep track. 2. That Spectacle's editor should always act as if it is in multi-window mode if it was used to open an existing image, regardless of the chosen setting. That is, if a user hits PrtSrc while in the editor window, it should not take a new screenshot. Perhaps this could a different setting, enabled by default. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
