Print Screen (which takes a screenshot and offers to save it), say "Save", and pick "kryogenix random folder" from the drop-down list of where to save it to. Publishing screenshots with three clicks. That'll do nicely.
(Skitch does other stuff, as I understand it, like cropping images and adding annotations. It would be cool if the Gnome screenshot tool allowed these things too, but I can live without them.)
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I've just looked at Skitch after someone used it to share a screenshot with me, and thoughts floated across my head about how I might use that too. Then I thought, now, hang on a second, I already have a website to publish images on, but I have to save them, then scp them up, and so on, and that's fiddly and annoying. Then I thought, this could be easier.
So, Places > Connect to Server, and fill in SSH details for kryogenix.org, with the folder being my "random" folder on the website, and tick "add bookmark" with the bookmark name being "kryogenix random folder". Now, to take a screenshot and publish it, I just hit
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Nelson
Anonymous Coward
Nelson: I've been using that functionality since KDE 3.4, and it seems present on my 4.2 install as well. Just what are you implying?
daniel
Try shutter instead of gnome-screenshot
http://shutter-project.org/
sheepeatingtaz
Nice tip, I'll remember that one!
ctwise
You can setup Skitch to publish screen captures using ftp, sftp, flickr, mobile me, webdav or skitch.com. And you can set the default. So at the bottom of every screen capture image you get a Webpost button. Click the button and you're done.
Skitch is awesome. It would make an awesome Linux app as well.
sil
Nelson: indeed, although you have to invoke it from the command line to get this. (I've added to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470152 to suggest a "Take another screenshot" button on the save window.)
sil
ctwise: I'm puzzled. What can skitch do that isn't covered by the above? I hit print screen, select my random folder, hit save. Done. It doesn't need a separate app!
Vadim Peretokin
I believe http://shutter-project.org/ is what you're looking for in the native-linux. Skitch is mac-only.
sil
OK, I've just installed shutter from the PPA. The "capture" things don't work, as far as I can tell.
ctwise
What's different about skitch vs. your approach? Ignoring the annotation, resizing and image type functions, not a lot. The big difference is that you don't even open a file selection box and hit save - you just click the button at the bottom of the image. And when the image is uploaded the button turns into 'Copy link'. Click the button a second time and the URL for the image is now on your clipboard.
Again, Skitch is a very well down snapshot program. It does area snapshots, desktop snapshots, window snapshots, timed snapshots, annotations, file resizing and file transcoding. The user interface is intuitive but its still obviously targeted toward power users. The app really does scream out to be ported to Linux.
sil
ctwise: I should note here that you don't have to open a filepicker in gnome-screenshot either (see http://alternativenayk.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/gnome-screenshot.png for the g-s window; just choose a bookmark from the dropdown). G-s also does all the other stuff you've mentioned except annotations. I wish g-s did annotations.
"Copy URL" is nice, I must admit it, although I don't think it's possible to do unless you're prepared for your skitch-ish app to upload to one centrally controlled place?
Joshua Blount
I'll half-heartedly second the above mentions of Shutter. http://elliotmurphy.com pointed it out to me, and it's quite nice albeit a bit buggy at the moment.
If you look through their LP bugs, given a few weeks this process should be two clicks (trigger screenshot, trigger upload), which will then copy the url the screenshot will be hosted at (defined previously by you). Winner.
Of course, working now is much better than not working IMHO :)
Tom Berger
Wow, I never realized you could do that with Nautilus. This is indeed so simple, and will save me heaps of scping to my server and to devpad. Thanks for sharing!
zerwas
I associated the "Print" key to automagically save a screenshot in my Dropbox folder and put the link address into my clipboard. Can it get any easier?
sil
zerwas: nice trick. I like that. :)
Simon
I have the GNOME screenshot launcher on my panel, and bookmarks for my webspace, so I don't need to touch the keyboard for screenshots, but I've never needed one.
Can GNOME screenshot be persuaded to launch GIMP and load the image - surely it can. Although presumably if that is what I want I launch the GIMP and use it's window grabbing tool!
Vadim Peretokin
Shutter does integrate with the gvfs, and captures work quite well for everybody - so could you please take a moment to describe the problem?
(if you don't want to use an already existing tool though that does what you'd like, fine by me too. Lots of similar projects about :)
Dennis Fisher
To those saying, "what's wrong with Skitch?!", I draw your attention to the title of the post: "Publishing screenshots and _files_ quickly." (Emphasis mine.)
This tip is more broadly applicable than just screenshots.
Dennis Fisher
Sorry, Shutter, not Skitch.
sil
Vadim: I started Shutter, and configured "Print Screen" as the activation key, and pressing "Print Screen" starts gnome-screenshot, not Shutter.
Recently the gnome screenshot tool added support to screenshot an user defined region, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155061 , so this may fullfil the need for cropping the image.