Multi-screenshot option

[Vadim Peretokin]

As mentioned by "lonniebiz":

"ability to configure it so that you can take rapid multiple screen shots and have them be auto-named and placed into a specified folder. That way you can take as many screen shots as you want to in the shortest amount of time, like a rapid fire camera. This is very useful during online meetings where someone is showing you how to do something on the computer."

[nomnex (nomnex)]

I don't want to sound negative, but as a Linux user, I know Git, IRC, the mailing list and the man (or info) pages, but "online meetings where someone is showing me how to do something" wow! It sounds like a M$ Marketing stuff, or something from a distant future. A Periodical capture feature for a print-screen software seems like adding unnecessary lines of code for a gadget feature 0.1% users might use occasionaly (in my opinion).

[David Hostetler (dahoste)]

How about phrasing it like this, then:

"Ability to configure shutter for periodic screen capture, such as while one is playing a game and wishes to generate screenshots automatically during the course of play, in order to easily create a gallery of images suitable for accompanying a review or developer's blog, etc.."

Better?

That is, in fact, why I came here after installing shutter. I've been using hypersnap for precisely that purpose, for windows-only games, and I'm hoping shutter can fulfill that role as I transition as much of my gaming and graphics development activities over to linux only.

But even that does a disservice to the description of the feature. I think a periodic capture timer would be a hugely valuable feature, for a wide variety of purposes. Consider -- if you want to take one screenshot, doesn't it follow that you'd like to take more than one, using the same settings? Frankly, I was really surprised (and, I'll admit, disappointed) when I discovered that shutter doesn't currently have this feature.

So here's my vote for it.