Toolbars obscure screenshot

[alteriks]

Hi,
I'm flameshot user and switched to satty which works great on sway.
I use a lot of screenshots for documentation purposes, unfortunately satty sometimes gets in the way.
I'd like to suggest a little quality of life improvement.
I'd be nice if satty didn't obscure screenshot with it's top and bottom toolbars.

I'd like to propose new feature - frame around screenshot with configurable:

• x,y dimensions
• background color

[gabm]

thanks for the feedback and suggestion.. I agree, the toolbars are in the way sometimes.. Frame around makes sense to me..

[KAGEYAM4]

This can help too -> zoom functionality using mouse wheel and dragging using Pointer tool.

[gabm]

also a good idea..

[gabm]

@alteriks is this about seeing what's behind the toolbars or drawing there?

[gabm]

the more I think about it, the more I like the zoom-pan idea.

• keep the toolbars in place statically, let them be hideable feat: add support for toggling visibility of toolbars #45
• allow for pan and zoom with the mouse/trackpad to move the (infinite) canvas around
• add pre-configured zoom/pan levels, keep them locked until the user manually browses away
  • fullscreen - what we have now, image behind toolbars
  • fit inside - what OP wants: zoom so that nothing is covered by the toolbars

The cool thing would be that it brings a ton of improvements

• if something is hidden behind the toolbars, you can just move until its visible
• you can draw in and outside the image (infinite canvas)
• you can zoom in to work on a very small part of the image
• you annotate very small or very big stuff

Excalidraw, but for image annotation

[alteriks]

@gabm Yes it's about seeing text behind semi-translucent toolbars.
Right now I either take bigger screenshot than I need to and crop it satty.
But sometimes I just begin drawing rectangle just below toolbar and stop when I'm hovering above.

[gabm]

I think what we will do for now is:

• whenever we are in fullscreen, we will show the toolbars as overlay - as we do by now
• when we are in windowed mode, we will display the toolbars outside the canvas

[gabm]

here is a mock-up

recording.mp4

[gabm]

To make room for additional options and tools - and at the same time solve usability issues as this one I worked on a new concept for the UI layout...

[KAGEYAM4]

Another thing could be to use Middle-click to toggle-hidden for toolbars.