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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

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Post by dleslie »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #88
dleslie wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 m…

> A _modern_ tool for blah blah.

I generally parse this as half-baked, not battle-tested, and difficult to use.

Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems

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Post by flixic »

michaelcampbell wrote: post #89
flixic wrote: post #32

If 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.

Yeah, their own cloud only. Sample URL: https://cln.sh/WjTbfF

I never use it though, because I take screenshot with CleanShot and then share directly in Slack / etc.

Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems

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Post by marcodiego »

dmitrygr wrote: post #62
denysvitali wrote: post #4

This 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.

The meme is good, but calling flameshot "somewhat working basic screenshot support" is an enormous understatement.

Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems

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Post by rozab »

bhay wrote: post #22

I've used Flameshot for a while and can say it is definitely the best of many tools I've tried. The direct upload to imgur is particularly nice.

Why do people still use imgur after all the antipatterns they've pushed? When I tap the direct image links in this thread I get greeted with an extremely slow infinite scrolling page, social media features galore, and intrusive requests to install the app.

I like postimages.org.

Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems

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Post by sgt »

Cool tool but redundant on macOS. Do screenshot using Shift-CMD-4 or 5 and edit using Preview to add arrows, text etc. I usually screenshot a part of the screen directly to the clipboard, then paste it into Mail.app where I can quickly edit it and add some text, errors, drawings etc.

Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems

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Post by detaro »

humanbeinc wrote: post #97

Windows is not a major OS anymore apparently

it runs on Windows too... Literally the second bullet point on the page is about Windows releases, would be kind of odd to list that if they didn't have Windows releases.

Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems

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Post by auganov »

marcodiego wrote: post #93
dmitrygr wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The meme is good, but calling flameshot "somewhat working basic screenshot support" is an enormous understatement.

Yet, it doesn't have a proper highlighter pen. It draws a straight line and adds up. If you go over the same spot twice or more text might become unreadable and it will just look wrong. I have been unable to find a Linux screenshot tool that does it right. I use Flameshot on Linux too, but it's the least bad one in my book.

Re: Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems

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Post by Arnavion »

jhvkjhk wrote: post #28
gspr wrote: post #24

I don't wanna poop on their parade, but haven't Wayland screenshotters been around for a while? https://github.com/emersion/grim That one has at least been around for long enough, and has worked perfectly under Sway for long enough, that I had to look up its name because I had it bound to a hotkey and had forgotten what it was called.

Reading grim’s README, it looks like a terminal tool, while flameshot is a GUI tool. You mean flameshot should just wrap grim on wayland?

grim can write the image to stdout. GUI like [1] can read images from stdin. You can make a script that pipes one to the other and bind that in your compositor.

[1]: https://github.com/jtheoof/swappy

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