PrtSc key on the desktop should require a long press

[Dustin Kirkland ]

I constantly find myself inadvertently hitting the Print Screen key, which takes a screenshot of my desktop. While this is a useful feature, it's just too easy to hit the key on some keyboards when you don't mean too. And then you're tracking down the screenshots directory to delete the unneeded or unwanted screenshot.

This could be almost completely avoided by requiring a slightly longer keypress to trigger the screenshot (perhaps 500ms?).

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Note that this potentially a security issue, as I have found security sensitive screenshots in my Pictures folder. Screenshots that I did not mean to take but are hanging around on my computer.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Also, I have a Debian desktop which does seem to implement the longer-keypress suggestion above.

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

I'm not convinced on making the prt-scr key have a delay on it, yet.

What might solve the problem, and the security issue, is making the default action "copy to clipboard" not "save to file".

I think that's what U7 used to do.

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

e.g. the attached screenshot

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.