I like the innovation of having annotations available within the tool; but I make games, a video alternative with a timeline of annotations would be killer.
Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems
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Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
it kinda is. the whole wayland ecosystem is slowling taking shape month after month. and given the radical change that wayland is, most thing have to be re-implemented using radically different tooling, libraries and approaches, which is very similar to re-inventing.
Major distros have been shipping wayland as the default backend for almost five years! I mean, yes, it's a lot of work. But it was wildly premature, and the community support for this stuff has been nothing short of a disaster of apathy and ignorance. Which is to say: what you say is true, but there's no excuse for breaking screenshots (!) for half a decade in the name of "progress". (And I say that as someone who ge…
> Which is to say: what you say is true, but there's no excuse for breaking screenshots (!) for half a decade in the name of "progress".
Breaking, or wholly removing, loved and important features because the developers believe they know better is sort of the modus operandi of the Gnome team; and don't you dare file a bug report. They don't accept criticism graciously.
See also: file picker icons, desktop icons, task tray, et cetera.
Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems
#83How does this compare to ShareX
ShareX is more feature-rich, but the settings are pretty convoluted. Flameshot is more easy to use and is available for Linux.
I personally use ShareX on Windows and Flameshot on Linux.
Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems
#84I like the innovation of having annotations available within the tool; but I make games, a video alternative with a timeline of annotations would be killer.
See ScreenToGif (amazing tool)
EDIT: Windows-only
Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anyone else here who found Shutter to be quite handy? I tried flameshot once and don't really get how one would find it more useful than Shutter.
I think flameshot is more for people who prefer design over functionality. Although the feature set is not too bad. Does shutter have annotation features?
If by annotation you mean arrows, numbered circles, texts, coloured boxes and so on, then yes, it has.
Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems
#86This is AWESOME news! I really love to see how well supported Wayland nowadays is. We're probably still missing a couple of things, but so far my experience has been fantastic.
The year was 2021: Windows was starting again to support non-x86 hardware architectures, and Microsoft was shipping the best to Linux desktop experience. Mac OS shipped with the the fastest mobile processor in the world. Android basically owned the phone market.... Linux desktop was just getting somewhat working basic screenshot support.
To be fair screenshoting has always worked great and a larger part of the Linux community always adopts things well before they are ready.
If you don't want sort of broken stuff don't use a distro that changes major versions every 6 months.
Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems
#87If you're looking for a screenshot tool for macOS, I cannot recommend CleanShot X highly enough. It in the league of its own, with scroll capture, gifs, even changing your desktop in the screenshot, but not "in reality". I'm really impressed.
Yes. A thousand times.
At our small company we trialed Jumpshare, CloudApp and a bunch of other stuff for both video and screenshots.
Cleanshot was by far the best, and costs the least. Unlike most tools which are SaaSified and require a monthly subscription, CleanShot still offers a one-off license. It's a steal.
The only one at our company not using Cleanshot is a developer on Linux. I think he's using Flameshot.
Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Major distros have been shipping wayland as the default backend for almost five years! I mean, yes, it's a lot of work. But it was wildly premature, and the community support for this stuff has been nothing short of a disaster of apathy and ignorance. Which is to say: what you say is true, but there's no excuse for breaking screenshots (!) for half a decade in the name of "progress". (And I say that as someone who ge…
> Which is to say: what you say is true, but there's no excuse for breaking screenshots (!) for half a decade in the name of "progress". Breaking, or wholly removing, loved and important features because the developers believe they know better is sort of the modus operandi of the Gnome team; and don't you dare file a bug report. They don't accept criticism graciously. See also: file picker icons, desktop icons, task…
This is sadly spreading... you have a thing, that is old, well tested, and works (and had worked for years).... but someone wants to reimplement this same thing in Rust, or whatever language of the day, because it's "safer" than (eg.) C... so you get something that has 40% of the features of the old software, 20% of the features that were done with another standard software, and one or two really important features missing.... but developer and distro-makers don't care, because it's "modern" and written in Rust (or whatever).
Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems
#89If you're looking for a screenshot tool for macOS, I cannot recommend CleanShot X highly enough. It in the league of its own, with scroll capture, gifs, even changing your desktop in the screenshot, but not "in reality". I'm really impressed.
I couldn't see in their home page, but is the cloud upload limited to their own cloud? It ticks most of my other boxes, but couldn't tell on that one.
Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems
#90I wish this tool existed on MacOS, being able to annotate screenshots in such a fluid manner was a great feature on Linux.
Literally the first sentence of the linked page is "Improved MacOS support. MacOS is now officially supported and we will resolve any reported issues on this platform." However, I think build-in screenshot tools (that even can take videos) in Macos are already quite powerful. What do you miss?
I haven't looked in awhile, so maybe Mac has some of these now
- immediate jump into editor after taking screenshot, with...
- text annotations
- arrow annotations
- box/circle annotations
- BLUR
- upload to imgur
- copy to clipboard