What does HackerNews think of ShareX?
ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.
Instead, I use another app called ShareX [1] which is much lighter on the OS and processor. It may not have all the features but you can easily create a screencast or recording session with ease.
I'm on Windows and I use https://getsharex.com/ which is open source too but only for Windows https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX
Will check Flameshot, if is good enough to match my experience with ShareX I will consider make the switch.
I prefer use tools that are available on Linux to increase the visibility of Linux! I believe that if we make more popular (by using and recommending) tools that are available in Windows/Mac _and_ Linux, more people will have no issues to switch to Linux (eg: VLC, Inkscape, Gimp, Krita, LibreOffice, Kdenlive).
I have Ubuntu as a secondary OS because sadly I'm hostage of Adobe CS :(
Will spread the word!
Now looking for the Windows installer on the download page https://flameshot.org/download/ to install it on my PC, I see that is not very handy, the download page links to the latest release page on GitHub who don't have the Windows installer yet https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/releases/tag/v0.8...
The previous version have it! https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/releases/tag/v0.8...
I think that an UX improvement for most users of the download page will be have the direct link to download the latest installer (.msi) instead of link to the latest release page on GitHub with all the binaries, witch can be confusing (besides that now is not even in the latest release). And put the link of latest release page on GitHub as a secondary link.
I was exposed to this firsthand yesterday when I cloned the [ShareX](https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX) project to take a look at a problem I was encountering.
Literally all I had to do was install Visual Studio Community, click the “Open in Visual Studio” button on Github, wait a few minutes to install the C# runtime that Visual Studio automatically prompted me to install, and click “Run”.
5 minutes was all it took to be writing code for that project and it makes me want to get into the .Net ecosystem more.
From the readme, you have to navigate to an entirely different repo, which contains only contains a handful of preview files.
Even then, they are all gifs, so if you wanted static content you're out of luck, as gifs are pretty much the incorrect format for lengthy content such as this. Files average 6-10MB each, so if you're actually on mobile, github won't preview them (how nice, they think of my data plan).
Consider ShareX [https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX], who quite some time ago did strip out their entire readme for putting more information on their own website, but they still have a gif showing a majority functions from their application. It's less than 200kb, because someone decided to optimise their content to an acceptable extent
http://i.imgur.com/5WEnr6b.png
Ok so it's another screenshot tool. Capture all, a window, a selection, etc. Bind global hotkeys.
But where it really shines is the easily configurable "after capture" and "after upload" toggles. In the screenshot you can see I have: copy to clipboard, save, and perform actions turned on. The first is nice because I can easily paste into Slack. The middle is nice because it goes to a particular directory and I have history. But the latter is something I just turned on to show you how it can easily open the screenshot into mspaint.exe for you.
Tools like these also make it easy to create documentation that is a step-by-step walkthrough of each process.
There is also an entire class of tools designed to screenshot automatically to track work: http://alternativeto.net/software/timesnapper/