Regression: timed screenshot broken

[Dan Dascalescu]

I'm using Pinta 2.1.1 on Kubutu 22.04 and am no longer able to take delayed screenshots.

1. File -> New Screenshot
2. Set the Delay to 5 seconds
3. Click Take

What happens is that the "Request screenshot" dialog immediate gets a tiny preview of the screenshot, instead of Pinta minimizing and waiting for 5 seconds. Also, the screenshot doesn't become editable in Pinta. I need to click "Save", but I don't want to save it - I want to edit it, then save it as a file with a given name.

[Cameron White (cameronwhite91)]

Would you be able to provide a screenshot of what your screenshot dialog looks like? :)

There are actually two possible ways that Pinta can take a screenshot now. One (which is tried first) is to use the XDG screenshot portal if available, since this is the only way that works with Wayland, sandboxes like flatpak / snap etc. This uses your system's standard screenshot tool and then makes the result available to Pinta

If the portal doesn't work, the old method is used where Pinta takes a full screen capture itself.

It sounds like the screenshot portal might be what you're using, if there is a preview in the screenshot dialog?

[Dan Dascalescu (ddascalescu+launchpad)]

Here's a screencast of Pinta taking a screenshots. It does appear that the screenshot request dialog is a system one, judging by its KDE icon.

[Cameron White (cameronwhite91)]

Thanks, yeah it looks like it's using the screenshot portal to use the standard system screenshot tool.
I might need to set up a VM to test this on KDE, but I'm wondering if you need to press "Take" rather than "Save" to get it to take a screenshot after the delay? It seems like a confusing UX in that dialog though :)