I want to be able to easily change, for example, the line thickness *after* I have drawn a line.

[Raytle]

Oftentimes after I have drawn, for example, a line I want to change that line's thickness. Of course to do this I choose undo, change the line thickness, and then redraw the line. I would prefer to be able to change the line thickness after I have drawn a line.

Yes, I realize the distinction between raster ("paint programs") and vector ("draw programs"). Yes, I realize that Flameshot seems to be a raster program.

By the way, I've been playing around with using Google Draw to edit my screenshots. Please see, Playing around with Google Drawing for editing screenshots. After using Google Draw to edit one of my screenshots I can then open Flameshot, select the part of the Google Draw document I want to upload to Imgur, and upload it to Imgur.

[mmahmoudian]

Install the latest version, draw the line. Then change click on the line button to deselect it, then just click on the line. This way you can move around the line and change all the properties incline the thickness. Also in close future we are releasing a feature to be able to save the screenshot as SVG so that users can use Inkscape or any other vector graphics tool to edit their annotations.

Try what I explained above and let me know how it works for you (I will keep this issue open).

[Raytle]

Install the latest version

In my terminal, I enteredflameshot -v I hade...
Flameshot v0.9.0
Compiled with Qt 5.12.8

Therefore I went to https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/releases and downloaded flameshot-0.9.0-1.ubuntu-20.04.amd64.deb.

Then, in a terminal, I ran...

sudo dpkg -i flameshot-0.9.0-1.ubuntu-20.04.amd64.deb

It was installed successfully.

draw the line.

I did.

Then change click on the line button to deselect it,

Did you mean, "Then click on the line button to deselect it." In other words, is the, word change in "Then change click..." extraneous?

then just click on the line.

I did.

This way you can move around the line and change all the properties incline the thickness.

You probably meant including not incline. Right?

I was unable to. In other words, that did not work for me.

Perhaps you might create a 10 to 20 second screencast for me. I use OBS studio to create screencasts. Of course many other screencasting applications exist. Screencasts up to 60 seconds can be uploaded to Imgur. See... How to Upload Video (to Imgur)

Also in close future

In English the word close is normally used for physical proximity; whereas the word near is used for temporal proximity and physical proximity. Don't ask me why. English has many nonsensical rules. When I used to teach conversational English I simply told my students something like, "English has many nonsensical rules. I think many of these are foolish. However, if you want to communicate properly in English you need to learn many nonsensical rules."

we are releasing a feature to be able to save the screenshot as SVG so that users can use Inkscape or any other vector graphics tool to edit their annotations.

Good!

Have you considered allowing users to easily copy their screenshot to a particular Google Drawing URL? For example, the URL for the document which I created named, Playing around with Google Drawing for editing screenshots is, https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1g3JREjF6LK4KNjwl2HJ23bnuyGSuwNojgUkxyF4froM/.

In case you are confused please see, https://i.imgur.com/7KHm5ke.png

I suppose my workflow would normally be either of the two following scenarios:

Scenario 1 (for screenshots I only annotate briefly)

1. Take a screenshot with Flameshot.
2. Briefly annotate it.
3. Upload it to Imgur.com

or

Scenario 2 (for screenshots I only annotate in significant detail)

1. Take a screenshot with Flameshot.
2. Click on a tool button that does yet not currently exist in Flameshot—but I am imagining you might add to Flameshot—that would copy the screenshot I had just taken and then open that screenshot in the Google Drawing whose URL I would have entered into my Flameshot preferences such as, https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1g3JREjF6LK4KNjwl2HJ23bnuyGSuwNojgUkxyF4froM/
3. Significantly annotate my screenshot in detail in my Google Drawing.
4. Take a screenshot with Flameshot of my Google Drawing.
5. Upload it to Imgur.com

Why would I want to use an existing Google Drawing document? Why wouldn't I want open a new Google Drawing document? Because I would have some of my own "tools" already open in my Google Drawing. Furthermore, Google Drawings automatically saves revisions which means if I were to inadvertently replace a version of Google Drawings with a new information, I would be able to easily retrieve my previous drawing. For more information please see, Use revision history in Google Files.

Try what I explained above and let me know how it works for you (I will keep this issue open).

As I indicated above, I tried yet I failed.

[mmahmoudian]

@Raytle Thanks for comprehensive explanation and also the quick English lesson. I typed those when I just woke up and most of typos were caused by typing on my phone less than a minute after I've woke up. But as you have guessed it, English is not my mother tongue but I'm hoping I'm not that bad in it either 😅.

I quickly recorded a Gif using Peek and ScreenKey to demo what I meant:

Regarding your remark about non-existing tool, yes we don't [yet] support uploading to any other services, but reading your scenarios make me wonder why don't you use the "copy to clipboard" tool (or simply press Crrl+c) to copy the screenshot with all the annotations and then paste it into your preferred editor application.

[Raytle]

Thanks for comprehensive explanation and also the quick English lesson.

Sure.

I typed those when I just woke up and most of typos were caused by typing on my phone less than a minute after I've woke up. But as you have guessed it, English is not my mother tongue but I'm hoping I'm not that bad in it either sweat_smile.

No problem.

I quickly recorded a Gif using Peek and ScreenKey to demo what I meant:
Peek 2021-06-21 17-16

Thanks for creating that screencast for me. It's excellent. I suggest you put it on the Flameshot homepage under a category named, "Coming Soon!" with the following verbiage, "The following feature is currently available in flameshot-0.10.0.rc1. It's so hot; it's cool!"

Regarding your remark about non-existing tool, yes we don't [yet] support uploading to any other services, but reading your scenarios make me wonder why don't you use the "copy to clipboard" tool (or simply press Crrl+c) to copy the screenshot with all the annotations and then paste it into your preferred editor application

I suppose that I might end up using, for example, maim to send a screenshot to an existing Google Drawing document of mine. Frankly, I suppose I might abandon Flameshot altogether. See, I found Flameshot a couple of years ago. I like it. But I wearied of being unable to edit screenshots like I can in a diagramming application such as Google Drawings.

[Raytle]

I installed maim. It was a delightfully quick and easy process. Then, after viewing...

1. maim copy screenshot clipbboard and save to specified location? and,
2. Read a URL from a file and open it in a Firefox tab

I cobbled (kludged) together the following Bash script which, frankly, I don't fully understand. But it more or less does what I want, which is...

1. It opens an existing Google Drawing of mine in a new Google Chrome browser window (This is step 1 because a Google Drawing often takes several seconds to load).
2. It switches back to "where I was" (that is, it programmatically presses"alt-tab").
3. It allows me to drag on my screen to select a portion of my screen—which is almost always what I want to be able to do—as opposed to, for example, taking a screenshot of my entire screen or of an entire window.
4. It then copies that selection to my clipboard.
5. It then it opens an existing Google Drawing of mine.
6. Finally, it pastes the screenshot I just created into my Google Drawing.

#!/bin/sh

# On Linux this script requires the following three applications: xdotool, xclip, and maim.

google-chrome-stable -new-window https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1g3JREjF6LK4KNjwl2HJ23bnuyGSuwNojgUkxyF4froM/edit 
# Put in a URL to your own Google Drawing.
# Create some "tools" in your Google Drawing so that you can
# quickly and easily annotate your screenshot.
# I'm using "google-chrome-stable" on Linux which I found in /usr/bin. You might be using a 
# different version of  Google Chrome or perhaps you are using Chromium.
sleep 4.0 # change this value depending on your needs.

xdotool key alt+Tab # simulates pressing alt+tab.
sleep 2.0 # change this value depending on your needs.

maim -s /home/pictures/screenshot.png; xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png < /home/pictures/screenshot.png

xdotool key alt+Tab # simulates pressing alt+tab.
sleep 2.0 # change this value depending on your needs.

xdotool key ctrl+v # simulates pressing ctrl+v (paste).

I bound it to a function key (a F-key) using Shortcut Keys.

The script above is certainly far from perfect. It's actually a kludge. I would be grateful if someone were to improve that script. In particular, it would be nice if the script it had the feature—which Flameshot has—which allows the user to change the size and location of a screenshot prior finalizing the screenshot. In other words, in Flameshot you can drag a rectangle on the screen, let go of you left click button on your mouse, and then move and/or resize the rectangle you just created. I find that feature very useful because it obviates the need for me to create a properly sized and position rectangle initially. Rather, it allows me to adjust the rectangle either grossly and/or granularly before finalizing the screenshot.

I'm neither an engineer nor do I aspire to become an engineer. I try to learn as little as possible about computers. When I learn stuff I need about computers I type notes in what has become a shockingly copious number of Google Docs I have hyperlinked together to create my own little knowledge base. Then I try to quickly forget as much as possible of the new "computer stuff" I just learned because it leaves me feeling ice cold and is—at least in my opinion—a waste of time for me to bother trying to remember. Yeah. Sure. I can and do perform some elementary "computer stuff" such as cobbling together Bash and Python scripts, but I detest doing it. I'd rather watch grass grow or paint dry than do "computer stuff". And, oh yeah, I neither fantasize about blasting off to visit the Moon nor live on Mars.

[mmahmoudian]

I'm glad you found a solution, but:

1. What you did with maim could have easily be done with Flameshot without the mess of writing into file and cat and xclip and etc. Simply do flameshot gui -c and it will copy the selected area.

2. This google draw thing you are insisting on is very much off-topic to this issue. The issue is about changing the thickness after drawing (which in the demo I showed it is both possible and available if you get the v0.10.0)

3. This repo is dedicated to Flameshot and although many softwares out there can do many great things, we prefer to keep the focus of this Gituhub project on Flameshot (for obvious reasons)

4. Flameshot like many many tools out there are designed to address specific needs. Many features will never be implemented and many will stay in the backlog simply because the devs of this project are doing this for free (zero fee, zero ads, zero telemetry).

5. There is a project I put together to help some users to get what they need:
   https://codeberg.org/mehrad/dmenu_shot
   https://codeberg.org/mehrad/dmenu_shot/src/branch/main/docs/actions.md
   You can modify the code and make your life easier instead of jumping through multiple hoops for a simple copy action 👍🏼

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considering my second point, I will now close this issue.

[Raytle]

Thanks for taking the time to send that message to me along with those links. I appreciate that.