HotShots Screen Capture utility

[Snowhog]

Not available from the standard *buntu repositories, our illustrious member Rog131 has it in his launchpad ppa: https://launchpad.net/~samrog131/+archive/ppa

This is a very cool utility. Way better than the default KSnapshot. I've wondered how he creates the beautifully annotated screenshots (including graphical data -- arrows, etc.) he includes in his posts. Now I know.

[dequire]

Thanks Snowhog! Will check it out and review if worthy

[Rog132]

Alternatives

KDE-Apps/Kaption: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/?content=139302

PPA: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas -> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=kaption

AskUbuntu: http://askubuntu.com/questions/3578/...es-screenshots


Compositing

:~$ apt-cache show screenie-qt

Description: fancy screenshot composer
Screenie a small tool to allow you to compose a fancy and stylish screenshots.
It is cross-platform (for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X) and very easy to use.
You will have an impressive screenshot in just one minute!
Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/screenie/

[vinnywright]

Not available from the standard *buntu repositories, our illustrious member Rog131 has it in his launchpad ppa: https://launchpad.net/~samrog131/+archive/ppa

This is a very cool utility. Way better than the default KSnapshot. I've wondered how he creates the beautifully annotated screenshots (including graphical data -- arrows, etc.) he includes in his posts. Now I know.

ya that one works nice ,,,,,,, Rog has a lot of cool stuff their!!

VINNY

[life0riley]

I was using a combination of KSnapshot and KolourPaint.
It's time to get some new tools!

[Teunis]

Running Kaption on this 23.10 install fails with:

teunis@13-10-W520:~$ kaption
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.

It will result in a process called kaption listed in the system activities.

[Rog132]

Kaption

Kaption options:

:~$ kaption --help
Usage: kaption [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options]

Screenshot grabber and editor for KDE

Generic options:
--help Show help about options
--help-qt Show Qt specific options
--help-kde Show KDE specific options
--help-all Show all options
--author Show author information
-v, --version Show version information
--license Show license information
-- End of options

Options:
--capture Captures the desktop

rog132@saucybeta:~$ kaption -v
Qt: 4.8.4
KDE Development Platform: 4.11.2
Kaption: 0.1.1

At here, with the Kubuntu 13.10 B2 / KDE 4.11.2 the Kaption is starting from the konsole to the system tray...




The 'QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication...' is https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297020

[Teunis]

Duh!
I never noticed it being in the system tray!

[richb]

Nice app! I just upgraded to KDE 4.11.2 and it crashes. It worked in 4.11.1. Screen goes black and get dumped to the lightdm login screen.

[OneLine]

KF5 - KScreenGenie



https://projects.kde.org/projects/pl...s/kscreengenie

https://projects.kde.org/projects/pl...r/entry/README

KScreenGenie - The (new) KDE Screenshot Utility
README


1) What is KScreenGenie

KScreenGenie is a screenshooter utility for KDE. It is written
using the very latest KDE and Qt technologies (KDE Frameworks 5,
Qt 5 and QtQuick 2.0), and aims for a cleaner and more modular
codebase over KSnapshot (the previous screenshooter utility for
KDE) rather than adding features. KScreenGenie's codebase is
designed specifically so that it's easy to add Wayland support
once an API becomes available for it...

[LinkBot]

KScreenGenie stable release

KScreenGenie stable release: http://marc.info/?t=143911477600002&r=1&w=2

Hi all,


This is a heads-up that I'll be doing a stable release of KScreenGenie
(v2.0.0) sometime late 15th August (after 10 PM) / early 16th August
2015, Indian Standard Time...

...

> As someone who didn't follow the discussion too closely: Will it eventually
> be renamed to KSnapshot and just replace it? :-)


Yes

KDE Review:
- https://projects.kde.org/projects/kd...w/kscreengenie
- https://projects.kde.org/projects/kd...nie/repository


Blog - KSnapshot-Next: https://blogs.kde.org/2015/08/12/ksnapshot-next


KScreenGenie 2.0.0 Release Announcement: http://marc.info/?t=143963735900002&r=1&w=2

[Rog131]

Spectacle

https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-a...er/005233.html

...KSnapshot has been deprecated in favour of Spectacle and will no
longer be maintained...


...Spectacle (which will see it's first release as part of Applications
15.12 in mid-Decemeber)...

$ spectacle -v
spectacle 15.11.80