Gregory's ServerHoly shit! Why doesn’t every screenshot app work like that?
UPD: app is https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
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 @halva @whynothugo @nikitonsky yup, it is possible, but kinda fucky. I tried it with mediocre results and I really wish there was just a ready-to-use app that could do just that. cc @vftdan  @whynothugo@fosstodon.org @nikitonsky@mastodon.online "wayland is so much more secure" mfs on their way to make it impossible to have cool things :neocat_sad: @nikitonsky the way my eyes went wide when you did the thing. I need this.  @nikitonsky Holy shirtballs, that's some clever functioning right there! Pro'lly won't buy Acorn just for that; I don't take that many screenshots & I seem to be pretty well on board with Affinity for my photo editing 😁 - but for anyone who does take screenshots even semi-often it seems like a no-brainer...
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@david @nikitonsky oh right! I think I own acorn 😂 rarely have the need but that looks cool.  @nikitonsky prob bc it's overcomplicated for the vast majority of screenshots. It's definitely possible to do in a Wayland compositor though, all the textures are there for you to move and hide and reorder.  @matt shared the idea in https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/27/a-new-accessibility-architecture-for-modern-free-desktops/ > Imagine how much more useful it would be to have access to the full content and structure of the information in the screenshot, as if you were accessing the application that the screenshot came from (assuming the app itself was accessible). @nikitonsky It's very nifty. Someone will forget that's how it works and publish a screenshot with porn or passwords or unredacted national secrets in the background or on a manually hidden layer (similar to redacting a PDF by changing the background color to match black text).  @zimzat @nikitonsky presumably it's a non-standard layered editing format, and you output a flat image with all the layers flattened? It's also a particular *type* of screenshot, though I suppose maybe you could get in trouble if you set that as your default key.  @nikitonsky in part because it's hard.   @nikitonsky @smilingdemon This may be worth the price of admission for Acorn on its own… @nikitonsky Wow! Wow! Wow! I am going to have to check out this sorcery! I'm in the market for a non-Photoshop image editor. It better not be subscription-based.   @JetForMe @nikitonsky This is the app I'm pretty sure (can't test it myself to verify as I don't own a Mac): https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/  @nikitonsky honestly, because most of them have "capture window" or “capture area" on macOS and most of them allow you to auto-hide the desktop icons and replace the wallpaper  @nikitonsky Shift-control-command-3 for a file Shift-control-command-4 to dump the shot directly to clipboard Probably the most useful and used awkward Mac keyboard shortcuts I know @colin_howells @nikitonsky I have customized my keyboard layout so that a special single key on my keyboard maps to shift-command-4. I use it multiple times a day. @kgourlay @nikitonsky Oh wait, I forgot there's Shift-command-3, which is a full screenshot, then Shift-command-4, which picks windows, in addition to the Shift-command-control-3-drag and -4-drag I remembered – thanks for reminding me  @nikitonsky rubbish! wait wtf is happening there?? :ablobcatbongo: :mastodon:  @nikitonsky just getting Photoshop-like UI there would be enough for me to buy it if I was a Mac user. On the other hand, ShareX on Windows also does its job well, I binded it to Print Screen and it allows to quickly add effects and select specific area for screenshot. I'm using KDE right now and it offers something similar to ShareX  @nikitonsky interesting… you'd need full access to the compositor state but that's probably something that could be done in Wayland on GNU/Linux…    @nikitonsky whew, we clearly have different ideas about acceptable levels of exposure. You do you, though!
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@nikitonsky On Linux, I don't think any compositor exposes all the APIs that you'd need for this (specifically, capturing background toplevel surfaces). I'm sure that something like this would be really fun to develop, but it's only really of any use on a stacking window manager.