Shutter 0.88.3 adds minor features, fixes a few bugs and updates translations.

New CLI-Parameters

It is now possible to configure the delay and to control whether you want to include the cursor when using Shutter in scripts.

-d, --delay=SECONDS

-c, --include_cursor

-C, --remove_cursor

Bugfixes

The other changes are mainly bug fixes that make the experience even better.

If you’ve subscribed to the Ubuntu repository, you’ll be prompted about an update being available automatically – otherwise, check the downloads page for individual packages. Updates for other distributions will be available soon.

Changelog:

  * Fixed bugs / minor improvements
    -- LP: #965589
       [Dropbox upload should urlencode the resuting link]
    -- LP: #966159
       [Wrong image format in save dialogue]
    -- LP: #975247
       [Editor: icon tool fails to add image]
    -- LP: #976316
       [Add include/exclude cursor option for command-line]
    -- LP: #976322
       [Add --delay command line option]
  * updated translations

Enjoy this release!

Shutter was voted “The Best Screen Capture Tool for Linux” in Lifehacker’s App Directory. Thanks!

Shutter 0.88.2 adds minor features, fixes some annoying bugs and updates translations.

New CLI-Parameter

It is now possible to prevent Shutter from adding new screenshots to the internal session which is useful when using Shutter in scripts. You have to use the new parameter -n (–no_session). Here is an example:

shutter --window=.*firefox.* -e -n -o %Y-%m-%d-%T.png

Improved Usability

You can now access Copy, Cut, Paste and Delete via right-click when using Shutter’s internal image editor.

Bugfixes

The other changes are mainly bug fixes that make the experience even better. As an example, uploading via FTP is now working again.

If you’ve subscribed to the Ubuntu repository, you’ll be prompted about an update being available automatically – otherwise, check the downloads page for individual packages. Updates for other distributions will be available soon.

Changelog:

  * Fixed bugs / minor improvements
    -- LP: #625291
       [Edit menu items should be shown in right-click popup for object]
    -- LP: #812182
       [save image to jpg extension]
    -- LP: #903305
       [Add no_session parameter]
    -- LP: #909195
       ['Updating plugins' dialogue appears on every startup]
    -- LP: #917158
       [FTP upload plugin recently stopped working]
  * updated translations

Enjoy this release!

Shutter 0.88.1 does not add any new features but fixes some annoying bugs.

If you’ve subscribed to the Ubuntu repository, you’ll be prompted about an update being available automatically – otherwise, check the downloads page for individual packages. Updates for other distributions will be available soon.

Changelog:

  * Fixed bugs / minor improvements
    -- LP: #894416
       [Some upload plugins fail with unicode characters in filename]
    -- LP: #894577
       [Minus service doesn't work]
  * updated translations

Enjoy this release!

This release improves Shutter’s upload mechanism, adds new features and fixes bugs.

Improved Uploading

Due to the rewrite of major parts of the code it was never easier to write an upload plugin for Shutter. Hence we added a bunch of new image hosting services.

New upload plugins

Shutter does also remember the latest uploads now. See how all this works:

Improved CLI-Interface

Is is now possible to specify the filename when using Shutter via command line. Here is an excerpt from Shutter’s manual page:

-o, --output=FILENAME
   Specify a filename to save the screenshot to (overwrites any profile-related
   setting).

   Supported image formats: You can save to any popular image format (e.g. jpeg, png,
   gif, bmp). Additionally it is possible to save to pdf, ps or svg.

   Please note: There are several wildcards available, like

	%Y = year
	%m = month
	%d = day
	%T = time
	$w = width
	$h = height
	$name = multi-purpose (e.g. window title)
	$nb_name = like $name but without blanks in resulting strings
	$profile = name of current profile
	$R = random char (e.g. $RRRR = ag4r)
	%NN = counter

   The string is interpretted by strftime. See "man strftime" for more examples.

   As an example: shutter -f -e -o './%y-%m-%d_$w_$h.png' would create a file named
   '11-10-28_1280_800.png' in the current directory.

Particularly interesting is the possibility to export directly to PDF without any further processing.

Want to develop an upload plugin?

All you need is a) some knowledge of Perl b) this template!

You are a package maintainer?

Shutter used to ship some Perl modules within the release tarball. We removed those custom modules because of security reasons. Please have a look at our list of dependencies to check if your current package does fulfill the needs of the new version. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

How to install?

If you’ve subscribed to the Ubuntu repository, you’ll be prompted about an update being available automatically – otherwise, check the downloads page for individual packages. Updates for other distributions will be available soon. Changelog:

  * New Features
    -- Refactored the uploading code (added support for plugins)
    -- Added new upload plugins
    -- Public links are now saved when a screenshot was uploaded
    -- New command line option: specify filename
  * New Upload Plugins
    -- Dropbox
    -- ImageBanana
    -- ImageShack
    -- Imgur
    -- ImmIO
    -- ITmages
    -- Minus
    -- Omploader
    -- ToileLibre
    -- TwitPic
    -- UbuntuPics
  * Fixed bugs / minor improvements
    -- LP: #342622
       [Remember upload links]
    -- LP: #841328
       [black corners if window is selected from the window list]
    -- LP: #888441
       [dialog not clickable when renaming a file]
    -- LP: #889031
       [Package should'nt provide own perl libraries]
    -- LP: #892703
       [After unlinking from Dropbox there is no way to relink it again]
    -- LP: #650701
       [retrieve Public URL if screenshot is already uploaded]
    -- LP: #675911
       [Url not selected when i do single click]
    -- LP: #793462
       [Short URL in imageshack.us]
    -- LP: #870556
       [specify file name on command line]
    -- LP: #374024
       [http://omploader.org/ as new image hoster]
    -- LP: #486490
       [Feature Request: Upload to imgur]
    -- LP: #489598
       [Wish: Add Twitpic support]
    -- LP: #598818
       [feature request: extensible imagehost/upload tools]
    -- LP: #602209
       [Add integration with Dropbox]
    -- LP: #619748
       [Add ubuntuusers.de thumbnail code to any of the hosting plugins]
    -- LP: #651029
       [Feature Request: Upload to ITmages]
    -- LP: #703299
       [Add upload to http://pix.toile-libre.org/]
    -- LP: #785032
       [min.us uploading support]
    -- LP: #793463
       [More image services to upload]
  * improved support for Gnome-Shell
  * several smaller bugfixes
  * updated translations

Enjoy this release!

Shutter was selected by MakeUseOf as one of the best applications running on Linux. Thank you very much!

The next Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) is taking place in Budapest, Hungary. Happily, my sponsorship request was accepted by Canonical (thanks to the one who decided that!!), so I am already sitting in the hotel’s lobby right now. I am really excited about all sessions coming up next week (tomorrow morning).

If anyone wants to have chat about Shutter or any other topic you are interested in, please let me know.

[Update]:

The summit is over and I am back home again.

My badge

For those who are curious, here are some nice photos: http://www.flickr.com/groups/uds/

I hope that I can be there again at the next UDS. See you soon.

There were several requests for integrating a flickr upload to GScrot in the last weeks.

Well, why should we reinvent the wheel when there already are pretty good solutions to do such a thing? An application I like very much is Postr by Ross Burton (http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/postr).

It is very easy to use and integrates well in the Gnome- or XFCE-Desktop. There are just a few steps to integrate postr into GScrot.

1. Installation of Postr using apt-get (of course you can use synaptic, aptitude etc. as well)


open a terminal and install Postr using the following command: sudo apt-get install postr

2. Configure Gscrot (Edit>>Preferences – Advanced>>Open with)
   

   Choose Flickr Uploader from the list. Activate the checkbox if you want to open your screenshot automatically with Postr after every single capture.

3. Take screenshot(s) and open them with Postr
   

   Just use the open button to open your screenshot(s) with the configured application (Postr in this case).

4. That’s it!
   

   As you can see all three screenshots were exported to Postr. You can now just use Postr...

Thanks, Ross! Great Application.