[Spectacle] [Bug 471387] Feature request: Load existing pictures into Spectacle Annotations Editor via GUI
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471387 --- Comment #5 from Yannis --- (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.
[Spectacle] [Bug 471387] Feature request: Load existing pictures into Spectacle Annotations Editor via GUI
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471387 --- Comment #4 from Noah Davis --- (In reply to Yannis from comment #3) > As an interested party, could I ask that this is kept open please? > > I agree with the reporter that having an Edit button after taking a > screenshot is a great advancement. > > However, the other use case of loading arbitrary images from storage to > edit, has not been fully met (as of Spectacle 24.05 on my distribution). I > was not aware of the command line switch so glad to hear it is possible. I > think that to close the request, you would need to implement graphical > interface for this too. > > It could perhaps have a different desktop file, or allow for multiple > windows in order to use an editor separately. Either way, it would need some > consideration as to how the user interface will be presented. > Thanks for your consideration. 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. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
[Spectacle] [Bug 471387] Feature request: Load existing pictures into Spectacle Annotations Editor via GUI
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471387 Noah Davis changed: What|Removed |Added Summary|Feature request: Load |Feature request: Load |existing pictures into |existing pictures into |Spectacle Annotations |Spectacle Annotations |Editor |Editor via GUI Resolution|WAITINGFORINFO |--- Status|NEEDSINFO |REPORTED -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
