> Flameshot can now be run in "one off" mode which means the background systray component is now optional. See the CLI details below.
This was my main turn off from flameshot - I found it weird to have something running in the background all the time just for taking screenshots. I'll be giving it another go.
Excellent piece of software, I use it so much it's now second nature. I remapped my prntscreen button on Ubuntu long long ago and have never even thought to search for a replacement.
Gnome has their own screenshot tool and they also broke the workflow for Flameshot on Wayland recently. The internal API that was used to take screenshots was blocked, which is reasonable in and of itself, however the new public API has an animation, after which a special window opens and requires you to click a "share" button before Flameshot can work with the screenshot. You need to go through that every time you use Flameshot.
I like that they think of security, but this is the type of thing that forces people back to X11. Their own screenshot tool does not adhere to the same workflow, so maybe they are blind to the issue.
Considering that Gnome is now the default DE for the more popular distros, I doubt Flameshot will ever receive the honor of becoming the default screenshot tool, even though it should. It provides most of the capabilities that a user would need when taking a screenshot. Desktop Linux needs these little goodies, so it can be sold to the average user.
> however the new public API has an animation, after which a special window opens and requires you to click a "share" button before Flameshot can work with the screenshot. You need to go through that every time you use Flameshot.
> Their own screenshot tool does not adhere to the same workflow, so maybe they are blind to the issue.
Which isn't surprising, in the least. I agree with aidenn0, if you're using a custom screenshot tool, you're not using GNOME as it's intended to be used.
Here's another fun fact, their music player doesn't have a volume control and that's how they think end users should use it.
Standardizing some tooling across major DEs would be a smart move, but I get the political impediments to doing so. Reinventing the wheel isn't always the right move.
Flameshot's superior to either Gnome or KDE's defaults. (Another example - gnome-calculator is superior to kcalc, and there are probably better more obscure calendars out there too.)
One of my favorite utilities on linux - I probably use it a dozen+ times a day, every day (have it bound to PrintScr). Took me a couple minutes this morning to remap my shortcuts though using the new gui mode.
I particularly like the "Drop Numbered Bubbles in incrementing value" option.
Flameshot is quite good, but to me it's always played second fiddle to Spectacle[0]. Flameshot's purple bubble UI and strange UX workflow makes it a hard pick when native choices are just this good.
Somewhat related / complementary - Capture2Text is a great Windows OCR screenshot tool, i.e. for capturing graphical text and converting it to textual text:
I was searching for something like Capture2text, which I use often on my windows machine, when I got macbook. None of the free apps made it past my requirements and I was unwilling to pay. I already had BetterTouchTools, so I created a global gesture for 2 finger double-tap that runs my OCR-translate Shortcut (the Apple app called Shortcuts). There the shortcut consists of: Take interactive screenshot -> Extract text from screen -> Translate text from image from detected language to English -> Show translated text.
Now my only 2 gripes are: the gesture sometimes doesn't trigger (for example when right click menu is open), and second: (resolved in edit) the OCR is keeping line breaks but the translation translates each line independently (still shows all lines at the same time). Maybe its fixable somehow, didn't bother yet.
EDIT: Just looked into it and putting a "Split text by lines" and "Combine text with spaces" nodes between "Extract text from screen" and "Translate text from image" works great with getting rid of line breaks. There's also replace text with regex support for wizards. If anyone knows how to say in regex "delete single newline characters, but if there's two, keep both of them", that would be nice.
Those don't run on Linux, but they're basically the same.
On Windows, Flameshot's installer is 40+ Mb, while Greenshot is 1.8 Mb. ShareX's installer started small, but has grown steadily up tp 7 Mb. I know installer size is not equivalent to performance, but on limited machines I stick to Greenshot, which works well for my use cases.
This was my main turn off from flameshot - I found it weird to have something running in the background all the time just for taking screenshots. I'll be giving it another go.