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Add 2 buttons to flameshot launcher

Open arcolinuxz opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

When we start flameshot from a terminal flameshot launcher

we get this 2021-10-27-184834_1920x1080_scrot

It would be perfect if we could immediately save the image to harddisk or save it to clipboard.

What I see is great, I just can not save it or use it. I have to take another image to be able to.

arcolinuxz avatar Oct 27 '21 16:10 arcolinuxz

@arcolinuxz I think this would be nice. It would fit in nicely into what I already plan to add to the launcher menu:

  • Drag&drop functionality for the preview image in the launcher
  • Open an image from the clipboard or from a file (or apply a watermark to the screenshot

Related to #1100, #2005.

veracioux avatar Oct 27 '21 18:10 veracioux

@veracioux after we add region parsing to the CLI, do you think it makes sense to add that to the launcher?

borgmanJeremy avatar Oct 27 '21 18:10 borgmanJeremy

@borgmanJeremy Possibly, I don't know. We have to be careful not to bloat the launcher though.

veracioux avatar Oct 27 '21 19:10 veracioux

@borgmanJeremy I don't know any other alternative software that do that. This is because the user that uses a GUI doesn't have the coordinates unless they want to take screenshots from the same area that they did last time. I'm not against it though, all I'm saying is that most probably the user who only use a graphical user interface also needs a special design for very limited scenarios, and we should keep the UI/UX simple and intuitive for them. This is unless we want to have simple and advanced tabs in launcher.

mmahmoudian avatar Oct 28 '21 04:10 mmahmoudian

I talked to a user that only uses GUI some minutes back and I asked what type of need they have. I was told that it would be good and perhaps enough to have one option to capture the previous region or to give it new coords. What they meant was that the Launcher remembers the previous inserted coordinates, and also independently the "capture previous region" recalls what was selected in the previous "screenshot from region" which was triggered by the launcher.

@arcolinuxz sorry for the off topic discussion.

mmahmoudian avatar Oct 28 '21 06:10 mmahmoudian

@mmahmoudian I'm fine with that. Although we have already talked about using the size indicator to select from a history of selection regions, I think it will be more discoverable in the launcher.

(I'm not saying that we shouldn't add it to the size indicator as well)

veracioux avatar Oct 28 '21 15:10 veracioux