Extend desktop file to support screenshot actions

[markstos]

It's super convenient to be able to take a screenshot and pass it to Swappy in one step.

Actions in the .desktop file feel like a natural place to offer these options.

Using rofi as a launcher, ".desktop" file actions are findable if the -drun-show-actions is passed.

With these actions, you can snapshot any of the following and have the result opened in swappy:

• current window
• current output
• select a window
• select an area

The downside is that these depend on grimshot, which is part of the sway project in the contrib/ directory there.

Some of the grimshot logic in turn depends on swaymsg.

Maybe these desktop actions are better hosted in another project since this one currently doesn't depend on Sway, but I thought I would share the idea here to start a conversation.

Another option would be to create a contrib/grimshot-swappy.desktop file. Sway users could opt to install it.

Thanks!

[jtheoof]

Thanks for the suggestion @markstos but as you mentioned I don't think swappy is the right place to do this.

Swappy should try to remain agnostic of the ecosystem it's in (sway or grimshot). Some users may use it in a pure Gnome shell environment, and this would break for them.

Maybe try in sway repo itself.

[markstos]

Makes sense. I think Sway will be agnostic to Swappy though.

[markstos]

I added the tip on Grimshot/Sway integration to the Sway wiki: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Tricks#take-screenshots-and-open-them-in-annotation-tool

In looking at the .desktop file shipped here, it wasn't clear why Terminal=true is included-- this causes a terminal to open in addition to Swappy. I tested with Terminal=false and it seems to work fine.