Anonymous
@ linuxdaddy
Don’t waste your lifetime on bad software. Flameshot may get hot one day in the future, but as is in the present, it should be avoided.
Your best bets:
Flameshot is under active development & its devs are open to entertaining feature suggestions.
Per my testing, its operation is bug-free, its UI is intuitive and its featureset covers my typical needs.
Workflow -wise, I sometimes find it desirable to feed an imagefile created by flameshot, feed it to mtpaint and apply 5% sharpening prior to uploading to imagehosting website. What’s nonsense (nonsensical) is the unsubstantiated claim that “it should be avoided”.
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HotShots is a fine (python + Qt4) proggie ~~ kudos for mentioning it.
the comparative desktop session memory overhead (in case readers care to know):
34mb hotshots
57mb flameshot
HotShots is chockfull of teats-on-a-bull features that one seldoms needs to use, has an overwhelming (arguably confusing) UI, and hasn’t seen active development since 2014. There is a forked version which adds Qt5 support — https://github.com/obiwankennedy/HotShots — which I’ve bookmarked & periodically do followup to check its progress.
If you (linuxdaddy) care to testdrive HotShots, ignore the borne-of-ignorance suggestion to obtain it from sourceforge.
It’s available here:
installation howto for an antiX17 64-bit system:
sudo apt-get install libqxt-core0 libqxt-gui0
cd /tmp && wget http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/h/hotshots/hotshots_2.2.0-1mx17+1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/h/hotshots/hotshots_2.2.0-1mx17+1_amd64.deb
installation howto for an antiX17 32-bit system:
sudo apt-get install libqxt-core0 libqxt-gui0
cd /tmp && wget http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/libh/libheif/heif-thumbnailer-dbgsym_1.3.2-1~mx17+1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/h/hotshots/hotshots_2.2.0-1mx17+1_amd64.deb
IIRC, its installation doesn’t place a .desktop launcher, so you’ll probably want to manually create one
(hint: Exec=/usr/bin/hotshots) then perform “Update Menus”
a few other possible reasons HotShots may not become your goto screencap utility:
— its “arrow” tool renders lines which look like flukeworms (eeew, gross!)
— comparatively large default filesize of the imagefiles it produces, vs other tools
— comparatively more complex workflow, often involving further post-processing to apply sharpening and/or similar corrections
http://shutter-project.org/
shutter is a fine, featureful FOSS product… yet I cannot recommend its use in antiX.
YMMV. Many of my installed apps already depend Qt4/Qt5.
NONE of my installed apps depend on “all this” —v
