Bug#671831: gnome-screenshot: main window never appears; can't save/copy screenshots

[Brian Marshall]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> forwarded 671831 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669629
> thanks
>
> On 07.05.2012 11:48, Brian Marshall wrote:
>> Package: gnome-screenshot
>> Version: 3.4.1-1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> gnome-screenshot flashes the screen and makes the shutter noise, but it no
>> longer opens the "Save Screenshot" window, so I can't use it to actually take
>> screenshots anymore. This message appears in the terminal:
>>
>>     ** (gnome-screenshot:7018): WARNING **: Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin
>>     screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11. Error:
>>     GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: Error: Expected type utf8
>>     for Argument 'filename' but got type 'boolean' (nil)
>>
>> I'm using gnome-shell 3.2.2.1-2 in wheezy. Downgrading gnome-screenshot to
>> 3.2.1-3 fixes the bug.
>
> Unfortunately, this is not a bug, but a "feature", i.e. a change made by
> upstream. gnome-screenshot no longer shows the save dialog, but simply
> saves the screenhot in ~/Pictures.
>
> Personally, I'm not a fan of this particular upstream change.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael

Wow, thanks for pointing that out. I'm not sure how long it would've
taken me to notice the dozen screenshots I unknowingly saved.

I'll leave this to GNOME since it's an intentional upstream change,
then. Thanks for your time.

-- Brian