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Screenshot tool for Linux
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Port to Windows? #548

Open Mingun opened 1 year ago

Mingun commented 1 year ago

The Shutter is the most convenient screenshot tool that I saw. The other tools have a significant usability flaws. Is it would be possible to port it to Windows?

Photon89 commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the praise, unfortunately, this is out of scope for Shutter, see also https://github.com/shutter-project/shutter/issues/508

Mingun commented 1 year ago

May be it is possible to replace taking screenshot functionality with some Windows library? How many work could be required for that? The Shutter GUI and image editor provides the best UX, from my point-of-view, and they probably a quite independent from Linux.

Photon89 commented 1 year ago

Well, the GUI is using perl-gtk3, the best I could find so far is this for perl-gtk2 which sounds like it's not that easy: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5399368/installing-gtk2-in-windows

DarthGandalf commented 1 year ago

There is https://www.gtk.org/docs/installations/windows/ and technically msys2 could work probably. And we already have various backends for screenshotting, one for x11, one for wayland. In a sense. In theory, this could be extended to windows as well. No promises though.