Toolbars obscure screenshot

gabm / Satty

Satty - Modern Screenshot Annotation. A tool inspired by Swappy and Flameshot.

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Toolbars obscure screenshot #49

Open alteriks opened 4 months ago

alteriks commented 4 months ago

Hi, I'm flameshot user and switched to satty which works great on sway. I use a lot of screenshots for documentation purposes, unfortunately satty sometimes gets in the way. I'd like to suggest a little quality of life improvement. I'd be nice if satty didn't obscure screenshot with it's top and bottom toolbars.

I'd like to propose new feature - frame around screenshot with configurable:

x,y dimensions
background color

gabm commented 4 months ago

thanks for the feedback and suggestion.. I agree, the toolbars are in the way sometimes.. Frame around makes sense to me..

KAGEYAM4 commented 4 months ago

This can help too -> zoom functionality using mouse wheel and dragging using Pointer tool.

gabm commented 4 months ago

also a good idea..

gabm commented 4 months ago

@alteriks is this about seeing what's behind the toolbars or drawing there?

gabm commented 4 months ago

the more I think about it, the more I like the zoom-pan idea.

keep the toolbars in place statically, let them be hideable #45
allow for pan and zoom with the mouse/trackpad to move the (infinite) canvas around
add pre-configured zoom/pan levels, keep them locked until the user manually browses away
- fullscreen - what we have now, image behind toolbars
- fit inside - what OP wants: zoom so that nothing is covered by the toolbars

The cool thing would be that it brings a ton of improvements

if something is hidden behind the toolbars, you can just move until its visible
you can draw in and outside the image (infinite canvas)
you can zoom in to work on a very small part of the image
you annotate very small or very big stuff

Excalidraw, but for image annotation

alteriks commented 4 months ago

@gabm Yes it's about seeing text behind semi-translucent toolbars. Right now I either take bigger screenshot than I need to and crop it satty.
But sometimes I just begin drawing rectangle just below toolbar and stop when I'm hovering above.

gabm commented 4 months ago

I think what we will do for now is:

whenever we are in fullscreen, we will show the toolbars as overlay - as we do by now
when we are in windowed mode, we will display the toolbars outside the canvas

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gabm commented 4 months ago

here is a mock-up

https://github.com/gabm/Satty/assets/482105/073cd05f-80d3-4988-b938-48c77c29bbbf

gabm commented 3 months ago

To make room for additional options and tools - and at the same time solve usability issues as this one I worked on a new concept for the UI layout...

satty mockup

KAGEYAM4 commented 3 months ago

Another thing could be to use Middle-click to toggle-hidden for toolbars.