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Provide official Windows build #43
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It appears that windows does include some functionality to create screenshots but it doesn't seem to quite have a good enough solution built in. Windows 10 provides two different applications: SnippingTool.exe and "Snip and Sketch". SnippingTool.exe seems to be deprecated or at least getting replaced by Snip and Sketch though it does not provide a timeline for when that will happen. It provides a flag Snip and Sketch appears to be the future of where Windows is going with included screenshot functionality. This tool is implemented as a UWP. It can be invoked via a protocol handler, as documented here but it doesn't appear to be an application that can be launched that way that we are in ashirt or have the ability to specify a location to write it the screenshot. It appears to copy the screenshot to the clipboard, but not save it, and not pass it back to the calling application. We maybe able to build a helper application that we can include on the windows side to invoke this tool and write out the screenshot but it's not clear if overwriting the clipboard would make us a bad citizen in the windows world of expected behavior. Other options we can look into are identifying open source screenshotting apps, or imagmagick's import, and simply include a helper to handle the screen capture functionality. A user will always be able to supply their own option but given that this doesn't appear to be as common as in the linux world and there isn't an included option, like in macos, we may want to provide an option. |
flameshot seems like it may be a good option to ship with the windows build. Not clear that it makes sense to ship with all platforms as macos has something that works out of the box and linux users may want to bring their own. Maybe providing as a default would be a good user experience though and provide the opportunity to switch to whatever the user wants. |
The tool should theoretically work on Windows and has been built with cross platform support in mind. We should provide official builds and potentially some sort of installer, since that's how windows software is typically distributed. Likely also need to provide guidance on setting up the screenshot helper tools.
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