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Improve UX for "auto add screenshot"

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#765 opened on Dec 21, 2018

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Description

I love the auto-add screenshot function - but I think it could use some UX smoothing:

  • When taking a screenshot, send a notification that users can click to see their screenshot in the desktop UI
  • Right clicking a file in the desktop ui should also pop open it's option menu (to share, download, etc)
  • Have a step between keyboard shortcut and selecting what to screenshot (full desktop, active window, choose selection) - otherwise I might accidentally screenshot and start providing something confidential! Right now if you have two windows it screenshots both - which is super unexpected IMHO
  • I get a 524 (or worse, an infinite loading screen) when trying to "share" and view a screenshot I just took on the ipfs or cloudflare gateways -- I think this might be a wider gateway issue - but FYI this makes that feature unusable (@eefahy)

I bet these are probably shared desktop/webUI items - but found them in this context so figured I'd surface them here. =] Great work! Looking forward to becoming a regular user of this feature

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Research direction
Investigate the keyboard shortcut implementation for taking screenshots in the desktop UI. Look for how the global shortcut is registered and how the screenshot capture process is initiated. Then, design and implement an intermediate step that lets users choose between full desktop, active window, or a selection area before the screenshot is taken.
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desktop
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