Going all-in with a screenshot tool to make it the best experience you can have?

[nickjj]

Having created hundreds of screenshots over the years with Flameshot, I'd say these concepts are really important IMO and the current screenshot solution we have today does not handle them. Niri does so many things amazingly well and I wonder if there's an opportunity to beef up the screenshot utility to be best in class without compromises.

While moving away from Flameshot, I ended up in a situation of cobbling together custom scripts and tools to try and get them captured in a few different ways but it's a frankenstein shell script approach of grim, slurp, the niri screenshot tool and satty. The end result is it's worse than Flameshot due to limitations of these tools individually.

Capture modes:

• Ability to drag a rectangle to capture a region
• Ability to screenshot a specific window
• Ability to screenshot 1 screen
• Ability to screenshot all screens (not as important IMO)

Saving:

• Any of the capturing mechanisms write to the clipboard
  • This is extremely useful for quickly pasting the screenshot to another app or website's form, I do this 90% of the time
• Any of the capturing mechanisms write to a file

Annotating:

• Ability to quickly annotate (add text, lines, shapes, free hand drawing, etc.) a screenshot before it's written anywhere
  • The annotation tool's toolbar and features are never hidden if the captured region is too small
• Ability to quickly adjust the size of a region during annotation time
  • This means maybe not having a dedicated capturing tool that's piped into the annotator

Ease of use:

• Wanting to do this with the least amount of key binds possible while being intuitive as possible
  • You could have 3 binds (region, window and current screen) and let the annotation tool figure out copying or writing to disk
  • vs.
  • 1 bind that tries to be smart at capture time which lets you select a region, click a specific window or grab your current screen if you're at the 0-10 X coordinate range or more specifically an area that might have your bar

[Sempyos]

This is a lovely writeup, but the main issue with doing this is that it is a lot of logic to implement and maintain for future releases that YaLTeR will have to do.

Please note this is my opinion thanky

[nickjj]

Sure, but I think by including a screenshot utility in Niri itself, it sets the precedence on wanting to use it.