Comment 60 for bug 927952

IMHO this "feature" is idiotic. The time it takes to make and save screenshots is more than double, especially fi capturing areas instead of the whole screen.

Not having a simple way to change this behaviour is even worse!

So if like me you prefer the old way here is a simple fix. Create a file called gnome-screenshot somewhere that is in your path before /usr/bin (~/bin in my case) and put this into it:

#!/bin/bash
exec /usr/bin/gnome-screenshot -i

Then make it executable (chmod 755 gnome-screenshot) and voila!
It works AS IT IS SUPPOSED to.