Shutter deletes previously saved data images

[John Michael Williams]

I'm very happy with shutter, but it has one shortcoming I would like corrected. This applies when using shutter in "png - PNG" mode, but I think the mode doesn't matter:

Using other apps (e. g., code-browser), I can perform work leading to the use of shutter; but, even if shutter was invoked earlier, when I run shutter "File/New Selection", the newly selected picture name ALWAYS is lost: Instead, after the selection, if I do shutter "File/Save As ...", I get a data list of "Selection_xxx.png", where "xxx" represents some 3-digit number naming the selected file.

Shortcoming: If I already have selected a file before going to the running copy of shutter, I always have to find and copy the file name again from another app (e. g., code-browser) and then paste it into the shutter data list.

Instead of defaulting to "Selection_xxx.png", shutter OPTIONALLY should default to my saved file name (if any) .png.

Perhaps shutter could display TWO "File/Save As ..." choices in the same window: One just as now, and the other showing my saved file name .png? I click to choose -- which is much faster than going to code-browser to copy the file name again.

[Michael Kogan (michael-kogan)]

In Shutter's settings ("General" tab) you can set a pattern for the file names of new screenshots (hover the text field there to get a tooltip with information on available wildcards).

If this is not what you want: I didn't quite understand where Shutter should get the file name of a newly created screenshot from, could you please elaborate on this?

[John Michael Williams (jwill1)]

Hi.

Thanks for the reply.

I'm using shutter on Ubuntu, where the latest version
is 0.94.3, Rev. 1306. There is no "General" tab that I can find.

There is a "Preferences" tab in the "Edit" menu, but I don't
see the choice you describe.

I'm using the latest available version at
https://shutter-project.org/wp-content/uploads/releases/ubuntu_debs/app/

My Ubuntu version is Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. I don't think I can update
it for long-term support.

On 11/2/20 1:56 AM, Michael Kogan wrote:
> In Shutter's settings ("General" tab) you can set a pattern for the file
> names of new screenshots (hover the text field there to get a tooltip
> with information on available wildcards).
>
> If this is not what you want: I didn't quite understand where Shutter
> should get the file name of a newly created screenshot from, could you
> please elaborate on this?
>
> ** Changed in: shutter
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

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John Michael Williams
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[Michael Kogan (michael-kogan)]

Sorry, my bad, I meant the "Main" tab in the preferences dialogue.

[John Michael Williams (jwill1)]

Hi.

Thanks for your extra effort - I wasn't aware of the Main
tab properties. Please see below for details of the problem.

On 11/2/20 8:37 AM, Michael Kogan wrote:
> Sorry, my bad, I meant the "Main" tab in the preferences dialogue.
>
> ** Attachment added: "Bildschirmfoto_2020-11-02_17-33-55.png"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/shutter/+bug/1902445/+attachment/5430307/+files/Bildschirmfoto_2020-11-02_17-33-55.png
>

You wrote,
> If this is not what you want: I didn't quite understand where Shutter
> should get the file name of a newly created screenshot from, could you
> please elaborate on this?
>
> ** Changed in: shutter
> Status: New => Incomplete

All this stuff is to allow me to view Wikispecies displays of
plants or animals offline:

I select a working target such as the Wikispecies app,
"Aciphylla aurea". Then, I can make a new offline
nautilus-clipboard copy of its online file. I can save the
copy so as to display it with my collection of copied apps located at
".../Documents/WikiSpecies/Animalia_Plantae_3".

"Animalia_Plantae_3" is my third location to maintain the approximately
3,000 copies I have made so far.

The new copy will contain the structure of the Wikispecies app,
but with some identifying details automatically omitted (to protect
Wikispecies from being named as the copier, although such copies are
entire legal). Otherwise, editted copies might be used to create
trouble for Wikispecies.

I can then load the new copy of the app into code-browser, which
will display all its text in proper order.

Because Wikispecies copies omit any graphic displays of the plant or
animal related (their online copies are in a distant folder which
only displays online), I then edit my copy in code-browser to include
a new line,

       <img src="./image_name.png", height=300, width=300>,

which will locate my own, personal copy of the online app.
I delete the original, useless reference to the Wikispecies graphic.

My new line replaces "image_name.png" with a specific choice
(e. g., with "Aciphylla aurea.png").

I add a proper "height" and "width"; and, next time I view the target
offline, I see it with its copied graphic subject matter.

I use shutter to copy the displayed picture of an online animal
or plant. shutter is kept online for this as I go from one animal
or plant to the next.

But, at present, when I invoke shutter on a new target, its topic is
blank and I have to copy the topic name from code-browser to use it
to make a shutter display of the animal or plant involved.

Code-browser is invoked by pasting the location into it and then using
the location copy to save the file properly.

Why can't shutter use the same copy as code-browser, so when I go to
shutter, I don't have to go back to code-browser to recopy it?

One POSSIBLE solution would be to have shutter to display TWO items,
instead of the current one.

At present, I invoke shutter and use its "File/Open ..." choice
to navigate to my ".../Documents/Wikispecies/Animalia_Plantae_3"
directory to use it.

Then, I (re)invoke my online Wikispecies at the correct location and
use shutter "File/New Selection" to copy the animal or plant picture
displayed...