Shutter 0.70 released!
Version 0.70 of Shutter is now available! Get it before the server overloads 
This is the first release of Shutter as it is – we’ve just renamed it from GScrot. So you’ll now find it called Shutter inder Applications ▸ Accessories, along with a nicer new logo (thanks to Pascal Grochol for the design).
The software has been improved and streamlined, as well as the name – we think “shutter” more accurately relates to what you’ll be doing alongside the software itself. The new software can be downloaded pretty quickly, so if you’re on an o2 broadband line you’ll be fine. Feel free to give us any feedback – there’s a lot of new things happening in this version, which we’ll explain more about now.
Major updates in this release are printing support, support for a whole lot of formats to save pictures in, support for watching changes to files (open the screenshot externally in gimp, save it – and shutter updates its copy), integration with GVFS (you can upload sites that you’ve connected to via Places ▸ Connect), better recognition for programs that can open a picture, faster thumbnail creation, and improved dialogs!
Shutter 0.70!
As if that weren’t enough, here is the full changelog detailing every item updated:
* General changes
-- Rebranding from GScrot to Shutter
-- Exports to and opens all file formats supported by gdk-pixbuf
-- Added native printing support (instead of gtklp)
-- Watch opened files via GnomeVFS File Monitor to monitor changes
-- Integration of GNOME Virtual File System and
GNOME authentication manager (LP: #310780)
-- Respect non-rectangular windows (XSHAPE)
when using metacity (LP: #260771)
-- Use themeable icons wherever its is possible
-- Use systemwide MIME Information instead of config file
-- Move screenshots to trash instead of deleting them (LP: #313003)
-- Faster thumbail creation and caching
(improves gui startup when a lot of files are in last session)
-- Improved Dialogs (e.g. Settings Dialog)
-- Show context menu for each file in session tab (right click)
* Gui improvements
Show current profile in statusbar (LP: #279271)
Second toolbar removed (LP: #311626)
Progress bars (LP: #310299)
-- LP: #311627
-- LP: #312966
-- LP: #313346
-- LP: #326758
* Drawing Tool
Scale uniformly (LP: #310708)
Added standard actions (copy, cut, paste, delete) (LP: #313343)
Added censor tool to hide private data (LP: #317659)
-- LP: #310717
-- LP: #310721
-- LP: #311574
-- LP: #311576
-- LP: #311577
-- LP: #311580
* Miscellaneous
Shutter shows up in GNOME add/remove (LP: #322388)
Repository is not signed (thanks to the LP Team) (LP: #312681)
* Plugins
New hard shadow plugin (thanks to Tualatrix) (LP: #331914)
* Fixed bugs
-- LP: #303090
-- LP: #313761
-- LP: #316917
-- LP: #336120
-- LP: #336126
-- LP: #336121
-- LP: #336118
-- LP: #336133
-- LP: #336124
* updated translations
About Shutter:
Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website - apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.
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It is a bit bloated for a screenshot utility, but I’d consider this a full fledged screenshot _application_, being much lighter than The GIMP, which I would end up using to censor, crop, and highlight screenshots taken by the more conventional screenshot utilities.
I like it, and use. Good job.
One non-critical suggestion: Would there be a way to add a Delayed Screenshot button or dropdown in a tasteful way? Many of the screenshots I take involve menu’s, which can only (to my knowledge) be taken with a delay. Going into the preferences every time to toggle delay can become tiresome.
Christopher Thomas is a hater and everybody knows that haters don’t use screenshot applications. They only use the computer to load the task monitor so that they can complain on blogs about programs that take up what they consider to be too many system resources. “OMG I caNt beleeev teh video encodor takeZ so longggs for teh process0rz tihs softwwarez is teh crap. BTW Slackware FTW!!!”
@Eugene
We don’t want to be DE-specific, and there is no agonistic tool sans Gimp (which we support) to use really. This is just for screenshot-special touch-ups – adding arrows, highlighting things, etc. Something that standard image editing aren’t designed for.
Nice app. Though It seems as this app is trying to be a picture viewer/editor as well as a screenshot taker. It would be better if the picture viewing/editing part could be a part of a separate app like eog or f-spot, and the screenshot program could just show the screenshot in the user’s chosen viewer/editor. If you know the unix “do one thing and do it well” philosophy – that’s what I’m basically suggesting. You’ll do more good that way.
@Christopher Thomas
wtf? Why are you even reading this, if you don’t care anyway? some people might find this app useful, apparently not you. But do you know what less useful then anything else? Trolls like you. Go piss of some windows users instead, at least they are probably gonna agree to the fact that the gnome task manager is a monster…
I’ll have to try this out on my laptop, it looks great!
Can you add text to the screen shots before saving them?
you add text and then save (it’s rather easy)
Some perspective is maybe a good thing here, it’s a screenshot app, right?
so basically, almost nobody will use it, fantastic!! Software nobody cares about. Admit it, almost nobody screenshots their desktops now and almost nobody gets excited over it, unless you’re “On the team”
That said, as screenshot apps go, it’s nice, but like the gnome task manager, I can only imagine how much resources goes into using this tool considering the small, tiny job that it should be doing.
It would be better if the network layer parts were split off and separated into components which could be used in the same way, without having to load up abstraction layers and network layers for uploading screenshots. Cause even if I do make screenshots, of the 1% who might actually do, I would bet than 1% of those upload them anywhere.
It’s a screenshot app, so lets keep it simple, make a screenshot app that takes sceenshots and a social website abstraction layer that deals with social websites and let them talk to each other, don’t force me to load up code that deals with that, when I dont even wanna use it.
Please dont reply me (it uses almost *NO* resources at all, bullshit, the gnome task manager can use 31->70% of my cpu to show me what tasks I am running and the blame apparently goes on all those lovely graphics.
I am sure someone here will understand what I am trying to say, even if all of you don’t.
We don’t make the gnome system monitor. Wrong place to rant, man…
Great news – really cool tool and impressive development!
Klasse, danke!
Darauf habe ich schon gewartet. Werde es mir sofort holen, sobald ich zu Hause bin.
Mach(t) weiter so!