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As has been pointed in another post you can capture a region of the screen with ksnapshot, by choosing the right option in the combo or by calling it directly with the --region modifier.

However sometimes you are looking for a capture of a concrete size, and it might be difficult for you to adjust it just by using the mouse.

So.. what about being able to manually edit the width/height values once the region is created? With this you would only need to move the box, which can also be improved by moving with the direction keys in order to adjust it (big moves can be done with the mouse, so one pixel per click is far enough).
An example for this: Direction keys to move the box, and Ctrl+Direction keys (or Alt+Direction keys) to resize it (Ctrl+Right increases horizontal size by 1 to the right, if possible, Ctrl+Left decreases size by 1 from the right, and so on.. in the end you only move right and bottom sides).

What do you think?

Regards

I think that would make the program much too complicated. You can easily do that with a simple image editor, I don't see any benefit from duplicating that particular functionality in ksnapshot

edit: I meant ksnapshot

In krunner?? I'm talking about ksnapshot, and the use of direction keys to move boxes is very common in many different programs, shouldn't be too much complicated here.
The most difficult part would be an user friendly custom resize method, but again not a problem imho.

This is good idea. It does not bring complexity anyway to KSnapshopt.

All what is needed to do is to add a functionality to move the region selection bottom right corner with arrow keys and give a pixel size in small box middle of the region selection and the pixel position of the top left point as well.

No UI changes to KSnapshot, no need for external program with crop tool etc. It would make a easy way to specific size screenshots for webpages, documets etc.

What user should do to get this work?

1. Start a region screenshot (from Ksnapshot or with shortcut).
2. Drag a area with mouse and with a wanted size and position.
3. Fine tune the size with arrow keys.
4. Press enter.

All what is added is the 3.

Now user needs to take the screenshot, press enter, open external editor etc.

So two functions will be added.

1. Region selection shows position/size info
2. Arrow keys will move the bottom right corner.

In gnome with compiz, there are the posibility to capture an area of the screen presing a combinations of keys and drawing with the mouse...

It's perfect to me, couse the images are perfects, and i dont need to open an extra program to do this...

i just press so keys

We already have that in KDE, just press print screen then set capture mode to "region". This idea is about settings a particular size area manually.

Thats true, I'm saying that's could be great if i can set a keybinding for this action. And not "loosing" time choosing the option

that's what i was saying of gnome... I set Ctrl + Shift, so when I press this combination while I drag the mouse, I'm capturing the screen

As always Mac OSX offers already something like this.

You can find a description how it works here: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?s ... 0175844745.

pablofeldman90 wrote:Thats true, I'm saying that's could be great if i can set a keybinding for this action. And not "loosing" time choosing the option

There is already a separate idea about that, one you posted a comment in earlier. Please keep discussion of that topic to that idea.