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Hello,

It would be really nice to have the choice between two way of grabbing the screen:

• Traditional output as a png for an instant snapshot
• GIF output for an animated/movie snapshot

The GIF output would be used through the same options that the traditional one, except than a small 'record' button would be displayed. It could be used for a specific windows, for all the screen, for a region through the selector, ...

The user could choose to maintain control over the desktop environment or not.
The user could stop the record by pressing a signal (SHIFT + ESCAPE for example).

It would be very useful for entertainment but also when reporting some bugs.
Indeed, I am currently facing a lot of visuals bugs in plasma, and it is hard to explain without a video or better a GIF.
The only KDE solution for doing this is to install kdenlive which is really too much complicated and heavy for just making a simple GIF.

In order to keep the ksnapshot light, it could be done through a plugin to the ksnapshot package?

I would like this feature to In the mean time you may want to look at simple screen recorder although not part of KDE it uses QT. It can create all kinds of videos files that you can easily convert to a GIF.
http://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/

You can make a video a gif quickly with ffmpeg -i input.mp4 input.gif kinda low quality though

or upload a webm or other video to Gfycat for simple sharing http://gfycat.com/

Earlier KDE forums - Isn't ksnapshot supposed to have GIF?: viewtopic.php?t=61815

-> Bug 196491 - No write support for GIF image format: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196491

Pino Toscano 2009-06-14 16:01:36 UTC
KSnapshot simply uses the image formats provided as Qt plugins, and the default Qt plugin for the GIF format is read-only.

--> QTBUG-1677 - Add support for writing GIF files: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-1677

@Rog131, well it is not about the same thing. Obviously, in order to implement this new feature we need to have support for GIF format, but except this, I am not sure to understand your reply.

@Terminus, thanks for the links, I will try it!