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26 | <copyright><year>1997-2000</year><holder>&Richard.J.Moore;</holder></copyright> | 26 | <copyright><year>1997-2000</year><holder>&Richard.J.Moore;</holder></copyright> | ||
27 | <copyright><year>2000</year><holder>&Matthias.Ettrich;</holder></copyright> | 27 | <copyright><year>2000</year><holder>&Matthias.Ettrich;</holder></copyright> | ||
28 | <copyright><year>2015</year><holder>&Boudhayan.Gupta;</holder></copyright> | 28 | <copyright><year>2015</year><holder>&Boudhayan.Gupta;</holder></copyright> | ||
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30 | <legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice> | 30 | <legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice> | ||
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32 | <date>2018-03-06</date> | 32 | <date>2018-07-17</date> | ||
33 | <releaseinfo>Applications 18.04</releaseinfo> | 33 | <releaseinfo>Applications 18.08</releaseinfo> | ||
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35 | <abstract> | 35 | <abstract> | ||
36 | <para>&spectacle; is a simple application for capturing desktop screenshots. It can capture images of the entire desktop, a single monitor, the currently active window, the window currently under the mouse, or a rectangular region of the screen. The images can then be printed, sent to other applications for manipulation, or quickly be saved as-is.</para> | 36 | <para>&spectacle; is a simple application for capturing desktop screenshots. It can capture images of the entire desktop, a single monitor, the currently active window, the window currently under the mouse, or a rectangular region of the screen. The images can then be printed, sent to other applications for manipulation, or quickly be saved as-is.</para> | ||
37 | </abstract> | 37 | </abstract> | ||
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39 | <keywordset> | 39 | <keywordset> | ||
40 | <keyword>KDE</keyword> | 40 | <keyword>KDE</keyword> | ||
41 | <keyword>spectacle</keyword> | 41 | <keyword>spectacle</keyword> | ||
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145 | <para>The <guilabel>Window Under Cursor</guilabel> option takes a screenshot of the window that is under the mouse cursor. If the cursor is on top of a popup menu, &spectacle; tries to take a screenshot of the menu as well as its parent window.</para> | 145 | <para>The <guilabel>Window Under Cursor</guilabel> option takes a screenshot of the window that is under the mouse cursor. If the cursor is on top of a popup menu, &spectacle; tries to take a screenshot of the menu as well as its parent window.</para> | ||
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147 | <para>While this works most of the time, in certain cases it may fail to obtain information about the parent window. In this case, &spectacle; falls back to old way of capturing the image automatically, and captures an image of only the popup menu. You can also force the old way of capturing the image by checking the <guilabel>Capture the current pop-up only</guilabel> checkbox under <guilabel>Options</guilabel></para> | 147 | <para>While this works most of the time, in certain cases it may fail to obtain information about the parent window. In this case, &spectacle; falls back to old way of capturing the image automatically, and captures an image of only the popup menu. You can also force the old way of capturing the image by checking the <guilabel>Capture the current pop-up only</guilabel> checkbox under <guilabel>Options</guilabel></para> | ||
148 | </listitem> | 148 | </listitem> | ||
149 | <listitem> | 149 | <listitem> | ||
150 | <para>The <guilabel>Rectangular Region</guilabel> option allows you to select a rectangular region of your desktop with your mouse. This region may be spread across different outputs.</para> | 150 | <para>The <guilabel>Rectangular Region</guilabel> option allows you to select a rectangular region of your desktop with your mouse. This region may be spread across different outputs.</para> | ||
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152 | <para>This mode does not immediately take a screenshot but allows you to draw a rectangle on your screen, which can be moved and resized as needed. Once the desired selection rectangle has been drawn, double-clicking anywhere on the screen, or pressing the &Enter; button on the keyboard will capture the screenshot.</para> | 152 | <para>This mode does not immediately take a screenshot but allows you to draw a rectangle on your screen, which can be moved and resized as needed. Once the desired selection rectangle has been drawn, double-clicking anywhere on the screen, or pressing the &Enter; button on the keyboard will capture the screenshot.</para> | ||
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154 | <para>You can use the arrow keys to move and adjust the rectangle. Pressing the arrow keys will move the rectangle. Holding the <keycap>Shift</keycap> key while pressing the arrow keys will move the rectangle slowly, for fine-tuning your selection. Holding the <keycap>Alt</keycap> key while pressing the arrow keys will adjust the size of the rectangle.</para> | ||||
ngraham: Two sentences use the descriptive mood ("Pressing the arrow keys...", "Holding the Alt key...")… | |||||
Alternatively, we could use the imperative mood for the top-level feature description (Press the arrow keys to slowly move the rectangle" and the descriptive mood for the possible modifications. Your choice. :) ngraham: Alternatively, we could use the imperative mood for the top-level feature description (Press… | |||||
"Holding the Shift while": Either remove "the", or add "key". "using the arrows": Change to "Using the arrow keys"? rkflx: "Holding the Shift while": Either remove "the", or add "key".
"using the arrows": Change to… | |||||
sharvey: Typos and/error sloppy grammar. Rewritten. | |||||
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153 | </listitem> | 156 | </listitem> | ||
154 | </itemizedlist> | 157 | </itemizedlist> | ||
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156 | <para>The <guilabel>Delay</guilabel> spin-box allows you to set the delay between pressing the <guibutton>Take a New Screenshot</guibutton> (<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>N</keycap></keycombo>) button and taking the screenshot. This delay can be set in increments of 1 seconds using the spinbox buttons or the keyboard.</para> | 159 | <para>The <guilabel>Delay</guilabel> spin-box allows you to set the delay between pressing the <guibutton>Take a New Screenshot</guibutton> (<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>N</keycap></keycombo>) button and taking the screenshot. This delay can be set in increments of 1 seconds using the spinbox buttons or the keyboard.</para> | ||
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158 | <para>Enabling the <guilabel>On Click</guilabel> checkbox overrides the delay. When this checkbox is enabled, pressing the <guibutton>Take a New Screenshot</guibutton> (<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>N</keycap></keycombo>) button hides the &spectacle; window and changes the mouse cursor to a crosshair. The screenshot is captured when the mouse is left-clicked, or aborted if any other mouse buttons are clicked. Note that you cannot interact with the desktop using the mouse while the cursor is a crosshair, but you can use the keyboard.</para> | 161 | <para>Enabling the <guilabel>On Click</guilabel> checkbox overrides the delay. When this checkbox is enabled, pressing the <guibutton>Take a New Screenshot</guibutton> (<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>N</keycap></keycombo>) button hides the &spectacle; window and changes the mouse cursor to a crosshair. The screenshot is captured when the mouse is left-clicked, or aborted if any other mouse buttons are clicked. Note that you cannot interact with the desktop using the mouse while the cursor is a crosshair, but you can use the keyboard.</para> | ||
159 | </sect2> | 162 | </sect2> | ||
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Two sentences use the descriptive mood ("Pressing the arrow keys...", "Holding the Alt key..."), while the middle one uses the imperative mood ("Hold down the Shift key..."). We should pick one and be consistent.