Re: [Ayatana] reviewing the Screenshot Tool [was: Idea: windicator add-ons, an extensible window border]

[Walter Wittel <wittelw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Someone did a really excellent design on the Windows 7 Snipping tool:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/snipping-tool.
I've used it at work and it is really nice.

2010/7/4 Kristoffer Lundén <kristoffer.lunden@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 2010/7/4 Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> * can't zoom thumb
>> * can't crop
>
> Crop (and therefore zoom) is something I do with almost all screenshots, and
> I think it's such a common use case that it should really be available
> directly in the app, even though it's some duplication of effort. I also
> think that the tool could very well open a bigger window with a bigger
> thumb, when there is room for it. It pops up on top anyway, so no need to
> save space? Also, it could probably make better use of the space to get a
> bigger thumb.
> Super-simple annotation would be useful too (pen + text) but of course that
> treads further down the path of complexity and duplication.
>
>>
>> * no support for image hosting services [2]
>
> I would like to see a plugin functionality for this, even though some of the
> more popular could be included and activated by default. There just are so
> many useful utilities for such a possibility, my own use case would be the
> ability to install or write a plugin that knows how to file and issue with
> Jira, Bugzilla, etc. Others would like Flickr, Picasa, Facebook etc, or any
> of the national image communities like the Swedish bilddagboken ("image
> diary").
> It could very well be a restricted kind of plugin that only is allowed to
> register into a "share/send" kind of menu.
> / K
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