Bugs in spectacle. Was: png editing suggestion

[Jack]

On 2018.02.01 10:37, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 February 2018 01:58:30 CET Jack wrote:
> > On 2018.01.31 19:40, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> > > Jack ha scritto:
>>>> Can someone recommend a relatively simple application for minor  
>>>> editing of png files for a docbook manual?  At minimum, I need to  
>>>> crop some images.  Being able to overlay small amounts of text is  
>>>> also useful.  I know I can use GIMP for this, but it seems to take  
>>>> me lots of time to relearn it every time I need to do something  
>>>> simple.
> > >
> > > Kolourpaint should do the job.
> >
> > Thanks.  I also found pinta (although not a KDE app)
> >
>>>> The cause here is that Spectacle has captured a number of  
>>>> screenshots (active window) with some type of border around the  
>>>> windows, which I think should be removed before using.  (This is  
>>>> something outside the regular  window border.)  Any hints on why  
>>>> spectacle might be acting up would also be welcome, but  I'll  
>>>> raise that as a separate issue at a later time.
> > >
> > > Maybe that's the space for the shadows, I see it too.
> >
>> It shows up as a white and gray checkerboard, which I seem to recall  
>> seeing as the background of some icons, and I wonder if it is meant  
>> to specify transaprent?
> 
> Yes, it's the basically standard way to specify the "transparent"  
> color.
And, there is an open bug for it:  
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374864.  It's allowing for a  
shadow border because someone once decided "it looks nice" (I'm  
overstating, but not by much.)
> 
>> One of my problems is that if I tell spectacle to capture the window  
>> under cursor, when I click "Take a New Screenshot" the spectacle  
>> window disappears and never comes back, no matter what I click and  
>> whether I have a time delay or use "On Click."
> I can't reproduce this on Fedora 27 (Spectacle 17.12.1).
> 
>> I have to kill the spectacle process.  So, I'm using Active Window,  
>> which works, but with the extra border.  Has anyone else seen this?   
>> Is there any troubleshooting I might do - or should I report it as a  
>> bug?
> 
> Do you use the last version?
I'm  using the latest version marked stable on Gentoo - 17.08.3.   
17.12.1 is available (marked as "testing" but for me to install it  
would require accepting a whole additional bunch of other "testing"  
versions.  I'm willing to do that, but it will take some time to go  
through all the config file changes I need to allow all those newer  
versions.  However, I also found an open bug for this one:   
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374864.

I'll have to try turning off compositing, as suggested in one of the  
bugs (or both?)

Jack