programmers-screenshot 0.28.0

programmers-screenshot (0.28.0) noble; urgency=medium

• --record takes a WebM of a region instead of a picture of it. The
  overlay comes up with the region tool only, Capture (or Enter) starts
  it, and the command exits at once printing the path it is filling, so
  binding one key to --record gives start and stop on that key: running
  it again stops the recording. ffmpeg does the encoding and joins
  Recommends; without it, one clear error naming the package.
• A red record dot sits beside Capture on the toolbar and on the floating
  palette, so an ordinary screenshot run can become a recording without
  starting again. It is only offered where recording would work.
• While a recording runs there is a dot in the desktop's status area
  carrying Stop recording -- the top bar, beside the volume and the
  battery, rather than a button behind a notification's expander arrow.
  It needs no extra package: StatusNotifierItem is a D-Bus interface, and
  it is served over Gio. The desktop has to be listening for one, which
  on GNOME means the AppIndicator extension Ubuntu ships switched on.
• The recording is readable only by its owner from the first frame, and
  stopping sends SIGINT so ffmpeg finalises the file rather than leaving
  it truncated. --gif converts the result and keeps that instead.
• Recording is X11 only. Under Wayland the one route is the portal's
  screencast, which cannot begin without somebody choosing a screen in a
  dialog, so a hotkey cannot start one; it refuses with a message.

-- Shubshub Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:38:08 +1200