No support for screen recording

[godalming123]

Feature Description

I think it would be nice if flameshot could take small screen recordings nothing fancy just say a 60 second capture that can be shown in you tray or a permenant capture that can also be shown and paused or saved from your tray.

[mmahmoudian]

I think that is out of the scope of Flameshot. There are already very good software (e.g peek) that you can use. Perhaps reinventing the wheel is not good at this point.

I'll keep this open and tag the following devs to know their opinion and then we can close it if everyone share the same opinion with me.

@borgmanJeremy @veracioux @ZetaoYang @hosiet @ThePurple @Martin-Eckleben

[panpuchkov]

I think that it's out of scope now. I had such requests too, but current concept is far from video recording.
I think that the only possible option is to integrate some 3rd-party screen recording tool and to call it transparently from the Flameshot. But it will be a challenge to find and support a good cross-platform tool with ability to integrate it.

[holazt]

The core function of flameshot is to take a screenshot and draw it, then save or copy it to the clipboard. However, flameshot still needs to work on this core feature, such as non-integer scaling for high resolution screens, multiple monitors, and wayland environments, which does not work well. Besides, the drawing function, also need a lot of improvement.

Other than the above functions are non-core functions, such as uploading screenshots to imgur, and I think these non-core features can be ported to plugins. Maybe "screen recording" can be achieved in flameshot plugins.

I think some of the buttons that appear in the screenshot area could be made available as plugins, for example, upload screenshot to imgur, pin, open screenshot in application...

[mmahmoudian]

I agree with both points so far. Flameshot can get feature rich through plugins and the core can be/should get more stable and light weight. There is a narrow but perhaps a fine line that should be drawn and defined by devs. I personally am not a C++ developer and therefore I'll try to minimise my influence/voice in this context as more knowledgeable fellows are onboard 🤓

[godalming123]

I would agree I just didn't realise that there was simple alternatives to get the job done and flameshot defenately needs some more important features such as being able to copy the selected color as seen in flameshot 11

[veracioux]

@mmahmoudian

I think that is out of the scope of Flameshot. There are already very good software (e.g peek) that you can use. Perhaps reinventing the wheel is not good at this point.

Absolutely agree. Flameshot should not be a screen recorder. Except in plugins, where all cards are on the table.

[borgmanJeremy]

This is also a duplicate of #172