Shortcuts and slim UI

[pascal-niklaus]

I use ksnip for teaching, and it works really well ! Basically, I annotate screenshots using a graphics tablet, and with the tabs I always am able to refer back to previous content. Tool selection by keystroke also works great since I can easily switch between tools without using menus or the mouse.

What I wished, however, is that I could assign shortcuts to the main colors that I use. Now I need to grab the mouse, click on the color button to have the palette pop up, and then click on the color I want. With keystrokes I could quickly switch to a certain color before drawing lines, arrows, text etc. I understand that some tools use two colors (e.g. for foreground and background), but here it would already be super helpful to be able to pick the "main" color with this shortcut. For example, if "1" was blue, and "2" was green, typing "A" "1" I could draw a blue arrow, followed by "2" to draw a green one. Same for text, here "T" "2" would be green text etc. My preference would be that these keystrokes would switch the color only in the active tool (not globally).

The other aspect I have been thinking of is whether one could hide/show the tool bars (left and top) and also the menu bar, for example by hitting "TAB". It is so easy to use the application with just keystrokes, and this would make for a "cleaner" appearance (my students care about the content, not the tools that I am using, and their screens (for remote teaching) sometimes are small and removing any "clutter" (from their perspective) would help).

[DamirPorobic]

Hello Pascal, glad to hear that you like ksnip and find it useful. Also that you use it for teaching is nice, didn't think about that use case before.

Color Shortcuts sound definitively useful. It might be useful to have a way to define your default colors, but that is maybe a next step. I'll try to bring this into 1.8.0 release.

Regarding your last part, there was a feature request that goes in that direction (ksnip/ksnip#442) but I like your idea of having a key/shortcut that hides it. Can you open a separate issue for that under ksnip? Maybe just cut out your text.