The screenshot delay behaves exactly as I have always expected it to.
If you select immediately and then wait 5 seconds, how do you change
virtual desktops to get to the window in question without
'accidentally' selecting your pager? Then again, I have often desired
a feature do what you propose here. I think both options should be
available, in combination, in the form of two delays. One before
selecting the window, and one before taking the screenshot.
On 1/27/07, Steve Stavropoulos <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I found myself today in the need to take a screenshot of a window
> with an open menu. I selected Acquire->Screenshot in gimp and in the
> dialog I chose a delay of 5 seconds, to give me time to open the menu
> after I selected the window to grab. But, after a while I figured out
> that gimp first waits for the 5 seconds to pass and then gives you the
> chance to select the window. That is the exact opposite of what I
> expected and didn't allow me to take the screenshot of the open menu I
> wanted. Maybe if I had selected to take a screenshot of the entire
> screen I would have been able to do my job, but I wrote the patch in
> the end of the message quicker. My ultra small patch just selects the
> window _first_ and grabs after applying the delay.
> To summarize, I think the current behaviour of screenshot.c is the
> opposite of what a user expects, has no practical value I can think of
> and in use cases as mine has dramatic impact in usability. Of course,
> there is a possibility that I miss something and that is why I send
> this patch here, so we can talk about what is "right" and "wrong".
>
>
> Index: screenshot.c
> ===================================================================
> --- screenshot.c (revision 21691)
> +++ screenshot.c (working copy)
> @@ -328,9 +328,6 @@
>
> if (status == GIMP_PDB_SUCCESS)
> {
> - if (shootvals.select_delay > 0)
> - shoot_delay (shootvals.select_delay);
> -
> if (shootvals.shoot_type != SHOOT_ROOT && ! shootvals.window_id)
> {
> shootvals.window_id = select_window (screen);
> @@ -342,6 +339,9 @@
>
> if (status == GIMP_PDB_SUCCESS)
> {
> + if (shootvals.select_delay > 0)
> + shoot_delay (shootvals.select_delay);
> +
> image_ID = shoot (screen);
>
> if (image_ID == -1)
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