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Kreenshot Editor

kreenshot-editor –screenshot-image-editing

License: (L)GPL

kreenshot-editor is written in Qt 5.3 with Linux as target platform.

It was inspired by Greenshot (GPL).

Note! kreenshot-editor is INCUBATING but it already can be used to edit screenshots.

News

2015-04-12, Sun Discussion page created: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=125841

2014-11-06, Thu Master source code repository moved to https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/graphics/kreenshot-editor/repository Project page: https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/graphics/kreenshot-editor

2014-10-24, Fri First binary prototype v0.03 availabe for openSUSE 13.2: http://software.opensuse.org/package/kreenshot-editor.

2014-05-01, Thu First source code commited to repository.

Features

Not all features listed here are already implemented. The bold ones are implemented.

• Image editing optimized for screenshots. Common editing and annotation tasks that occur when dealing with screenshots:
• Draw objects and move or resize later
  • rectangle
  • ellipse
  • line
  • arrow
  • text
  • Optional drop shadow for objects
  • later: create a free-hand drawing object
• Rectangular image operation objects
  • highlight
  • obfuscate
  • Movable and resizeable
• Crop
• Undo/Redo
• Command line interface to integrate it in other screenshot tools that have no own image editor.
• Example: kreenshot-editor --treat-as-new "/tmp/image1.png" --description "Hallo das ist ein Test - aaa \ bbb ///"
• Give a secondary image as parameter. This can be used to pass the captured mouse cursor as extra object so the user can move or delete it. Thus, the mouse cursor can always be captured and the user decides later.
• Provide a QWidget component to seemlessly integrate in other screenshot tools
• Save image to default location with placeholders for date, time etc.

Download

• Currently there is a binary package only for openSUSE 13.2
• For source code dowload see “Contribute” section below.

Discuss

• Discussion forum: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=125841
• All bugs and wishes: kreenshot-editor on bugs.kde.org

Contribute

• Source code hosted on projects.kde.org:playground/graphics/kreenshot-editor
  • See README for build instructions and current TODOs and open issues.
• Code contributions: See this Sample review request on https://git.reviewboard.kde.org to find out how to fill in the fields correctly.
• Bug reports go to here: discussion forum (todo later create a https://bugs.kde.org/ product for kreenshot-editor)

Screenshots

CURRENT dev state 2014-11-02

OLD dev state 2014-07-05

Background

This section provides some background information.

In general, a screenshot tool in general comprises of three parts:

1. Capture image from screen.
2. Edit image in some way (optional).
3. Save image in a standardized user defined way to disk or export it other ways.

kreenshot-editor aims to support the user with task No. 2 and 3.

Another goal is to help fixing this ksnapshot issue: Bug 268260 - WISH - Add basic draw functions

Similar tools for Linux with editor for screenshots:

• kaption (QT)
• shutter (Perl)
• hotshots, website 2 (QT)
• ksnapshot (QT)

Code Details

• Widget toolkit: Qt 5.3 (http://qt-project.org/)
  • based on QGraphicsView, QGraphicsScene, QGraphicsItem
• Primary programming language: C++
• Build system: cmake
• Snapshot binary package for openSUSE: http://software.opensuse.org/package/kreenshot-editor