Screenshot should give you the option of hiding the cursor when you take a screenshot

[Sam Illingworth]

Binary package hint: gnome-screenshot

When you take a screenshot a dialogue pops up asking you where to save. This dialogue should have the option of hiding the cursor. The option may be configurable somewhere, but it's not intuitive or easy to use, it should be right there when you take the screenshot.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: dash 0.5.5.1-7.2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jan 21 02:31:08 2011
ExecutablePath: /bin/dash
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_AG.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dash

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, the gnome-screenshot --interactive command which is what the desktop entry run has this option, you want the same on the keys to directly take a screenshot? that seems not practical since the key takes the screenshot and the dialog displayed is only to store this one, it would have to display a dialog before taking the screenshot in that case...

[Sam Illingworth (mazz0)]

I think there are too many different dialogs involved. We have:

option 1) you press Print Screen and you get a dialogue with no options other than saving the screenshot
option 2) you run --interactive which gives you a dialog with options, followed by the dialog from option 1

The way I see it the dialog in option 1 is pointless. It should just take the screenshot and save it to your desktop (without the cursor, in my opinion, I doubt many people want that by default, but the defualt behaviour should be customizable). Option 2 should have the save location built in so it doesn't lead on to another dialog.

The user should have the choice which option is run when he presses print screen.

[Ma Hsiao-chun (mahsiaochun)]

As I tried in 13.04 and saucy, the cursor is not saved now.