kImageAnnotator
Tool for annotating images (by ksnip)
swappy
A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS (by jtheoof)
| kImageAnnotator | swappy | |
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| 9 | 21 | |
| 76 | 910 | |
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| 7.4 | 4.4 | |
| 20 days ago | 21 days ago | |
| C++ | C | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
kImageAnnotator
Posts with mentions or reviews of kImageAnnotator.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-11.
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Spectacle - cannot find cropping tools
Previously Spectacle used the kImageAnnotator library for the annotation function, so when that library got cropping support Spectacle got it too. For better or worse the new UI no longer uses that library, so I'm guessing the Spectacle devs will have to add in cropping support manually now. No clue if there are plans for it unfortunately, but I assume if work gets started on it there will be an update on that bug report.
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This week in KDE: New Spectacle – Adventures in Linux and KDE
It's available as a library (https://github.com/ksnip/kImageAnnotator), additionally you can use the --edit-existing flag with Spectacle to edit arbitrary existing images.
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This week in KDE: big things – Adventures in Linux and KDE
Yeah, it's really good. You can thank the author of https://github.com/ksnip/kImageAnnotator/!
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Spectacle 22.04.1-2 on Arch now supports cropping (plus a few other things)
That's just the last change that made it to 0.6.0, the actual difference is more like this.
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When did Spectacle get an Annotate button!?
Cropping in Spectacle will only appear when kImageAnnotator 0.6.0 gets released, as noted in the bug report.
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Lighter alternative to GIMP?
I actually just learned about Ksnip, because I first wanted to recommend you KDE Spectacle, but I noticed it didn't show a crop tool. I discovered Spectacle uses Ksnip's kImageAnnotator for editing and thus discovered Ksnip. Somehow Ksnip does show a crop button and other features that are not enabled in Spectacle. I think I like Spectacle more for quickly taking a screenshot, while Ksnip seems nice to have for a quick edit.
swappy
Posts with mentions or reviews of swappy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-09.
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MSPaint like tool for Linux
I think swappy works great as a screenshot annotation tool.
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Trying to use Swappy for the First Time
It will save the file in save_dir (see config section)
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Suggest me: Screenshot tool with anotation
Use any wayland compatible screenshot tool and pipe it into Swappy
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bindsym not working with flameshot
I combine grimshot + swappy to get something similar to Flameshot. Not as good, but it has the advantage of... actually working on Sway.
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How I chose the right screenshot tool for my Linux
I personally use grim + slurp + swappy, and i love it! :)
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redshift like gui application
If you want to edit the screenshot, pipe it through swappy
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swaywm color picker
For those sort of simple jobs, you might find that swappy is enough (and much faster to start and simpler to use).
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Screenshot in Sway
My fav is swappy.
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Lighter alternative to GIMP?
Sounds like Swappy. https://github.com/jtheoof/swappy
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What apps are you running on Sway? (Wayland Native Apps of course)
Screenshots: grim + slurp + swappy
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kImageAnnotator and swappy you can also consider the following projects:
ksnip - ksnip the cross-platform screenshot and annotation tool
grim - Grab images from a Wayland compositor
flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:
mpv-image-viewer - Configuration, scripts and tips for using mpv as an image viewer
org.gimp.GIMP
sway-borders - Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.
gimp-appimage
qutebrowser - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt.
drawing - Simple image editor for Linux
clipman - A simple clipboard manager for Wayland
gvfs - Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs