Docs state to use ctrl-alt-shift-R to record screen recording, which will NEVER work correctly

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Ubuntu docs: https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/screen-shot-record.html are incorrectly sayig to mis-use this Gnome feature as a user-focussed 'Make a Screencast'

According to the Gnome developers who implement/maintain this feature, it's only to be used for recording 30-second snippets and reporting bugs in Gnome.

By design there is no warning that a screen-recording has been terminated at the 30 seconds mark, and it should (apparently) never be used for general screen-recordings. Ubuntu is encouraging people to mis-use this feature and thereby lose data (many bug reports against Gnome going back 5+ years of people requesting it be changed, closed as WONTFIX / by-design).

It's non-trivial to make the feature work as described in the ubuntu docs, and there's no mention that it's hardcoded to 30 seconds max.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for your report.

It's not clear to me how that step-by-step page encourages users to "mis-use" the feature.

Anyway, the page in question is from GNOME Help, and if you want to discuss its wording, I would recommend you to submit an upstream issue:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-user-docs/-/issues

If you do, please post the URL to the upstream issue here for tracking purposes.