I pushed 0.3 out to the PPA a while ago, but have yet to do much with 0.4. I’ve just committed the first change that actually changes functionality at all and it’s the beginning of a fairly big feature for 0.4, hotkey support. Currently it’s hardcoded in, but I’d like to support changing the key combinations before 0.4 goes much further. Currently <Ctrl><Shift>3 captures the entire screen and <Ctrl><Shift>4 captures an area.
Just the other day, I pushed out the first beta of version 0.3 of my screenshot utility, Lookit. Just a few minutes ago, I pushed out the second.
Lookit is a tool inspired by TinyGrab for quickly uploading and sharing screenshots. This new version brings a couple of new features that the previous version lacked, in particular, compatibility with older, non-compositing window managers, and a selection rectangle to more clearly see the area of the screen that you’re selecting.
Beta 2 includes just a couple bugfixes over beta 1, which are KDE compatibility (at least the beginnings of it, I still need some testers for this) and properly saving and restoring the save directory, if you choose to not delete images after upload.
Well, maybe “look” isn’t quite the right word, there’s not a lot of GUI to look at. However, I’ve spent a large portion of the day figuring out how to get around two of the more annoying issues in the current version, specifically, non-compositing window manager support and drawing the selection rectangle.
The new solution involves grabbing the mouse directly rather than letting the input be grabbed by an invisible window. That alone improves the application dramatically by allowing it to run without a compositing manager. With some luck, this will help with multimon support as well. Drawing the rectangle requires some lower level code, though, specifically using Xlib instead of GDK.
If there’s anything that you want to see implemented in the next release, make sure it’s mentioned on the Bug Tracker.
It’s a new project, and I’m moving fast. I just pushed Lookit 0.2 to bzr as well as the Lookit PPA. Changes include support for Imgur as an upload option, a warning when using a non-compositing window manager, Ubuntu Mono icons, and a few minor bugfixes. As always, *please* report any bugs to http://bugs.launchpad.net/lookit.
EDIT: I’ve moved to github, report bugs here: http://github.com/zachtib/lookit/issues
After around two weeks of coding in my freetime, I yesterday uploaded the first public release of my screenshot utility, Lookit. Unlike my bash script, this version has a proper GUI and no longer relies on external utilities like scrot and xclip. Instead, everything is done in native Python.
EDIT: Ubuntu 10.04 packages can be found on the project’s page on Launchpad: http://launchpad.net/lookit.
Other development is done at github: http://zachtib.github.com/lookit/