Comment by kylegill
5 years ago
This looks really neat, it's amazing what an animated gif or video can do for a README to help to understand what a thing is meant to do.
If I were more of a hacker and hadn't already paid the best 25 bucks I've ever spent on CleanShot X [0] I'd be all over this.
And you weren't using MacOS that is, right?
Haha an important detail! Looks like they're trying to make an easily installable version for Mac. I see commits in the log about MacOS as well as a note that mentions building it yourself:
> There are no macOS port of flameshot now that can be easy installed. But you can build flameshot by yourself and use it.
just confirming that i just built from source following the readme instructions (needed some help with qt https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/586) and it works fine.
however the text size is too small and thats a dealbreaker: https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/645 hoping this gets resolved.
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Cleanshot lools great. Baffles me though that Windows comes with great screenshot tool and MacOS doesn't.
The screenshot tool in macOS can take full screen, region or window screenshots. It can also capture video.
This is all I need from the screenshot tool itself and I am glad that they don’t add a bunch of additional options and stuff inside of screenshot taking itself.
If you want to annotate the screenshot open it in Preview and edit it there.
If you need really powerful editing tools, a third-party tool is appropriate.
It’s better that way to me. Have a system that works nicely for everyone, and leave it to third-party developers to build niche tools.
Imagine how much useless to me stuff there would be on my screen, if the operating system had to ship with tools that did absolutely everything for absolutely everyone.
You can absolutely annotate screenshots using just the integrated screenshot tool of macOS. You can even do the annotation on your iOS device seamlessly, which is really neat if you've got an iPad with Pencil. I don't think there are any third party tools as powerful as that - I loved Flameshot on Linux but I don't see why I would need it on macOS.
You mean the one that's so laggy, there's often a 2 second delay between pressing the hotkey and the screenshot happening? And if you're low on RAM, it'll freeze the whole computer for 15 seconds and not even take the screenshot (potentially crashing Chrome in the process)? Yeah, I love that one! It also seems to hijack the Print Screen key, making it subject to its own instability.
Most of the time I try to not talk about things I don’t have any knowledge of. macOS had a great screenshot feature built in.
All over what animated gif? But with which software?
I was referring to the gif on the GitHub README here: https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/#preview (sorry if I was vague)
In this project's case, it showcases a lot of features as they're actually used, rather than some bullets that say what it _should_ do. In general, I appreciate a gif like this for explaining because it boils down some essential features into one easily digestable clip. It's a preferable medium for me over a long YouTube video or text explaining how something works.
not OP but I think they meant all over this tool (Flameshot).
Like OP, I’m also a HUGE fan of cleanshot x for mac. Got our entire team on it, some were quite happy with the built-in screen grabbing tool on Mac, but pretty much all love Cleanshot.