Some minor issues

[Ligthiago]

I tried this tool recently, it's good, but I and found some minor problems with it, which can probably be fixed.

1) Dot at start of brush tool.
No clue is this a my specific problem, maybe something with the touchpad, but the brush tool always starts with a dot that will not undo with line and stay as a separate item, so I need to tap CTRL-Z twice.

2) Sharp, almost polygonal curved lines.
Brush tool with fast movements doesn't look very smooth.

3) Lack of short options equivalents.
Help message right now is looks like this:

Modern Screenshot Annotation. A Screenshot Annotation Tool inspired by Swappy and Flameshot.

Usage: satty [OPTIONS] --filename <FILENAME>

Options:
  -c, --config <CONFIG>
          Path to the config file. Otherwise will be read from XDG_CONFIG_DIR/satty/config.toml
  -f, --filename <FILENAME>
          Path to input image or '-' to read from stdin
      --fullscreen
          Start Satty in fullscreen mode
      --output-filename <OUTPUT_FILENAME>
          Filename to use for saving action. Omit to disable saving to file. Might contain format specifiers: <https://docs.rs/chrono/latest/chrono/format/strftime/index.html>
      --early-exit
          Exit directly after copy/save action
      --initial-tool <TOOL>
          Select the tool on startup [aliases: init-tool] [possible values: pointer, crop, line, arrow, rectangle, text, marker, blur, brush]
      --copy-command <COPY_COMMAND>
          Configure the command to be called on copy, for example `wl-copy`
      --annotation-size-factor <ANNOTATION_SIZE_FACTOR>
          Increase or decrease the size of the annotations
  -h, --help
          Print help
  -V, --version
          Print version

As far as I can see, there are no short equivalents for very long --output-filename or --annotation-size-factor options. Probably -o for --output-filename, -t for --initial-tool, capital -F for --fullscreen would be nice and save a lot of time for typing. It just minor QOL improvement.

PS. Using last 0.9.0 version built from source on Hyprland

[gabm]

Thank you so much for this detailed report.. All of them are problems, yes.

• 1. seems to be a small bug, I created an issue for it: Spurious dot in the beginning of a path #47
• 2. is because of two related issues: rendering is done synchronously in response to the input event (bad practise) and rendering is done on CPU only (that's cairos limitation). that means rendering is slow and therefore only a very low amount of input events is actually processed. I am working on a renderer using femtovg that would address both problems - but no eta so far.
• 3. is very very minor, I'll fix that soon

As always, any contribution is welcome!

[gabm]

@Ligthiago once v0.11.0 is available for you, can you check that 1) and 2) are fixed?

[Ligthiago]

1. Fixed for me
2. Much smoother, still some polygonal lines when moving the mouse really fast, but fine by me. Also, right now I can't check it on a HiDPI display like I did the first time.

Also while testing the new version I found another bug: after resizing window line is not drawn exactly under the cursor, check the video. It also doesn't draw under the cursor with the --fullscreen flag if the image is not the full screen size, for example only part of the screen.

2024-02-28_01-46-21.mp4

[gabm]

Thank you for testing and your report. Yes.. this is a regression introduced by #53...

[gabm]

The fix to this regression has been released as v0.11.1. Can you check?

[Ligthiago]

Fixed for me

[gabm]

great!