swappy VS kImageAnnotator

I think swappy works great as a screenshot annotation tool.

It will save the file in save_dir (see config section)

Use any wayland compatible screenshot tool and pipe it into Swappy

I combine grimshot + swappy to get something similar to Flameshot. Not as good, but it has the advantage of... actually working on Sway.

I personally use grim + slurp + swappy, and i love it! :)

If you want to edit the screenshot, pipe it through swappy

For those sort of simple jobs, you might find that swappy is enough (and much faster to start and simpler to use).

My fav is swappy.

Sounds like Swappy. https://github.com/jtheoof/swappy

Screenshots: grim + slurp + swappy

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.

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.

Yeah, it's really good. You can thank the author of https://github.com/ksnip/kImageAnnotator/!

That's just the last change that made it to 0.6.0, the actual difference is more like this.

Cropping in Spectacle will only appear when kImageAnnotator 0.6.0 gets released, as noted in the bug report.

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.