 Yesterday I published a video talking about one thing that I envy of GNOME but today there's another thing that I envy for GNOME which is the screenshot tool. The GNOME screenshot tool is just so cool and it's also able to record your screen and actually back then when I was using GNOME I did use that tool to record my screen a lot for little things so it's something that I did miss on Kiri Plasma especially if you're into Wayland then the simplest way to record your screen is somehow OBS but luckily that seems to be changing. Spectacle which is the Kiri's application to take screenshots has been redesigned and this was an effort that required work of more than one developer of course and also for a nice period of time so I'm super thankful to both Noha and Marco for working on this. I actually at Academy in October when we all went, our KD developers, I was able to see how this spectacle tool redesigned was coming up from the screen of the laptop of Noha. That was actually pretty cool but now the merge request has been merged. The feature has been announced in the blog post of Needcrams so it's as public as it can get so let's see how our design is. So just to give you an idea of how big their design is we are deleting 3,500 lines of code and we are adding 11,000 new lines so it's a big pretty big code change and it's not over this is only part of it so pretty impressive I would say. Keep in mind that my personal biggest merge request to KD are like 100 of lines and that's it I'm not comfortable going more than that so I'm truly impressed and the merge request also has lots of screenshots to see how it actually performs and the first one is probably like the coolest. This is the new UI that you will see when you're doing a full screen capture so it's not the application but it's the UI you will see when you're selecting the area of the screen and it's perfect it's gorgeous it's perfect I don't know what else to say like seriously look at it. So you select the area of the screen you have that image you can save it you can show the annotation tools that are underneath here where you can draw lines you can blur I love blurring and you can also add a text or you can add a new screenshot right away so super cool just super I don't know what else to say really. This is instead the application that actually shows you the image again this is not the final look it's still work in progress it's still being updated and changed this was only part of it so you can just get a general idea of kind of how it looks. As an example I think there is work going on to change these options into buttons to actually take new screenshots so instead of selecting the capture mode and then take any screenshot you just click on rectangular region and you take a screenshot of a rectangular region that saves a bit of time I think it's nice. Of course you can see that the screenshots of the new UI of spectacle were done with spectacle obviously. You can also see that all of the options that you previously had in spectacle are still here you also still have the configure for the advanced option so it seems like no feature was lost. This is the UI of when you're taking a screenshot but you haven't taken you did not take any screenshot before that so there's no image to show and there's only you know the UI and as an example you do see here that rectangular region all screens this kind of things are buttons to click. This is when you're trying to annotate an image that has been taken from the spectacle UI this is similar to what we had previously but looks better. You now have this heather area on the top which I think looks gorgeous on all kd applications so it's nice to get it and then of course the edit tools and options for the tool that you've selected and you can just edit the image. I don't know if you knew that spectacle has this like you can take a screenshot and then edit it right away from the application itself you can do that already this redesign is making it prettier. What else you've got the menu with all the options if you're interested in that just to make sure that you're not losing anything if you if you were worried the help menu and finally the options for annotation this one. So is it just like making the UI prettier? Of course not. Of course not and you can just guess that even just from the amount of bug reports that this magic was fixed. There's one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven this merge request sorry I meant to say merge request fixes eleven bug reports so that's pretty impressive. This also mostly ports the UI from QT widgets to QML if I understood this correctly there's still some QT widgets pieces as highlighted in the merge request but in general having something in QML makes it much easier to maintain and update and improve throughout the years. Finally the most interesting part is the very last sentence which is there is some unused code in this patch that is meant for the upcoming video recording feature. There has been lots of talk also in the visual design room which is public by the way about bringing video recording to spectacle which would be amazing just amazing. So if you like today's screenshots of your system personally I already thought that spectacle was like one of the very best tools to take screenshot after this redesign even more so and if it gets and hopefully it will be the recording features that's it that's the application I'm never going to use anything but spectacle again