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On MacOSX, there is a feature called "Capture a selection to the Clipboard", where the key combination Shift-Control-Command-4 allows a selection box to be placed over any area of the screen, which is then copied to the clipboard. This allows a much more streamlined approached to pasting small screen areas into documents:

"new" current method: with "ksnapshot --region"

1) hit shortuct
2) select needed area
3) hit enter
4) hit copy to clipboard
5) paste into final document


Suggested Method:
1) keyboard shortcut for capture selection
2) select needed area
3) paste into final document

A command line option for ksnapshot that will allow the command "ksnapshot -region -clipboard" to automatically send the selection to the clipboard will allow this more streamlined option.

Update: Ideally, there will be three options: clipboard, save, open with. By assigning the appropriate command line setting to the desired keybinding, any functionality can be created with minimal effort.

ksnapshot has a "screen region" option and a "copy to clipboard" option, so the current method is more like:

1) open ksnapshot
2) set capture method to region
3) click "new snapshot"
3) select needed area
4) hit enter
5) hit copy to clipboard
6) paste into final document

If you set "ksnapshot --region" to the a keyboard shortcut, it is even easier:

1) hit shortuct
2) select needed area
3) hit enter
4) hit copy to clipboard
5) paste into final document

I think a better suggestion would be to have command-line options in ksnapshot for the various results, "save as", "open with...", and "copy to clipboard".

Although your idea is technically valid, I think it would be better if you modified your idea to make it about ksnapshot having those command-line options.

Original post updated to reflect ksnapshot's options.

As I said, I think it would be better if all of the three options (clipboard, save, open with) were available from the commandline as opposed to just one.

TheBlackCat wrote:As I said, I think it would be better if all of the three options (clipboard, save, open with) were available from the commandline as opposed to just one.

Not that I want to copy all things of Mac, but the Mac OSX-method for doing this is more user-friendly than a command-line option.

The point about command-line options is that they can then be assigned to keyboard shortcuts. Once that is done there is no need to worry about the commandline at all.

I think must be a shurtcut for each of this options.... in gnome with compiz, you could configure it