GIF support in Spectacle

Igor Mironchik igor.mironchik at gmail.com
Fri Sep 18 09:50:40 BST 2026


Hello.

I write with a small offer to KDE. I know that KDE prefer Qt's implementation 
and nothing covered by Qt should be in KDE. I know, I know. But the following 
thing is partially covered by Qt...

I'd like to have ability in Spectacle to save screen recordings in GIF. I have 
my own application for GIF recordings/editing. On Linux at this time X11 
supported only. I wait for refuse of KDE from X11 for Wayland support.

Ok. What I have? I have a small library for reading/writing GIF with its own 
quantization algorithm. Not the best quality, but quality/performance 
approximately one of the best.

Repository of the library - https://github.com/igormironchik/qgiflib

Repository of the applications - https://github.com/igormironchik/gif-tools

Binaries for openSUSE Tumbleweed:

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:imironchik/gif-tools

https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/imironchik/my/

It would be great to have a possibility in Spectacle to save recordings in GIF 
format, and my library can help with it. I'd be happy to start incubation in 
KDE for this library if authors of Spectacle would like to use it.

Please think on wy words.

Thank you.
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