Docs state to use ctrl-alt-shift-R to record screen recording, which will NEVER work correctly
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gnome-user-docs (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Ubuntu docs: https:/
According to the Gnome developers who implement/maintain this feature, it's only to be used for recording 30-second snippets and reporting bugs in Gnome.
By design there is no warning that a screen-recording has been terminated at the 30 seconds mark, and it should (apparently) never be used for general screen-recordings. Ubuntu is encouraging people to mis-use this feature and thereby lose data (many bug reports against Gnome going back 5+ years of people requesting it be changed, closed as WONTFIX / by-design).
It's non-trivial to make the feature work as described in the ubuntu docs, and there's no mention that it's hardcoded to 30 seconds max.
Thanks for your report.
It's not clear to me how that step-by-step page encourages users to "mis-use" the feature.
Anyway, the page in question is from GNOME Help, and if you want to discuss its wording, I would recommend you to submit an upstream issue:
https:/ /gitlab. gnome.org/ GNOME/gnome- user-docs/ -/issues
If you do, please post the URL to the upstream issue here for tracking purposes.