Default GNOME screenshot behavior is incorrect?

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As far as I can tell, the default behavior of GNOME's screenshot functionality is to silently save a copy of the screen shot in a file within ~/Pictures.

This strikes me as non-intuitive, incorrect behavior. How is the end user supposed to know where the heck the picture was saved? There's no pop-up telling him/her where to look for it.

I seem to recall that in previous GNOME releases, a window would pop up asking what you wanted to do with the picture -- copy it to the clipboard or save it to disk. This is far preferable behavior to the current behavior. If popping up a window is not an option, then I'd say that a default of saving the image to the clipboard, rather than to a file, would make a lot more sense, because (a) it's what certain other operating systems we could name do, and (b) the user doesn't have to go hunting for it.

I suppose you could say that the new behavior resembles what iOS does on the iPhone, iPad, etc. when you take a screenshot, but the difference is that everybody who has an iPhone uses their "Pictures" app at one time or another and therefore knows where pictures are stored, whereas I'm sure there are plenty of people (including me) who never look in ~/Pictures on Linux.

If the screenshot must be saved into ~/Pictures, then I'd say that it should be saved there and copied to the clipboard.

What do others think about this?

  jik

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