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Screen-Shooter
The Screen-shooter applet is a Gnome Panel applet, which easily gives you access to the power of the import command. The applet therefore requires that you have ImageMagick installed. As you can see in the screenshots, the applet is a simple one, but is highly useful I believe.
If anyone is interested, I could even add automatic submission to various screenshot collecting websites, or to your own server, if you have one.
Screenshots
There it is, second from the top. I made it nice and teeny to save
panel space...
And here are some of its options, these shots are taken from the development version 0.9, and so may differ slightly from the stable release.
ChangeLog
The 0.5 release adds support for every single image format under the
sun!. Filetypes are determined automatically from the suffix of the
filename you choose. Try your luck.
Practically any format will work, for a really cool trick, try
image.html.
Also, command substitution is permitted in the filename entry. The default setting uses the date command to timestamp the image filename. You can do much cooler things than this. Experiment...
New since 0.6 are further post-processing features which make use of
the convert command (also part of ImageMagick). The first feature to
exploit this is the thumbnail feature. This'll create your snapshot,
then a thumbnail of it, for sticking on a webpage. More to come.
New since 0.7 is support for CVS gnome sized panels. Now the buttons
will lie flat on a tiny panel. This needs testing, so feel free to get
stuck in...
New to 0.8.1 are more post-processing options. Frame addition,
equalization, normalization and gamma adjustment.
Somebody stop me if I get carried away ;)
New to 0.8.2 is a .spec file, and therefore rpms.
Getting screenshooter
As of some time late last year, the applet hit gnome cvs applets HEAD. This means it will be part of the GNOME 1.2 release, and is currently in the 1.1.x development releases. This is the best way to get the applet right now, any tarballs I put up here would only be outdated.