Hotshots is a high quality QT5 screenshot caption application capable of making high quality text, arrows, circles, highlights, blurs, underlines, shapes, magnifications and more. This program was dropped by its original owner in 2014 but received a 2018 QT5 port by someone on Github and may still even be in MXLinux’s repo (as of 2020). Most distros do not have hotshots packaged and I want Flatpak to rescue Hotshots from deprecating.
I rebuilt this program on Ubuntu 18.04, 20:04, and 20:10 but I don’t know how long I can “work against the system” Flatpak will insure that this program keeps working forever. I don’t want this awesome valuable software to deprecate.
I just want to add even when wayland breaks screenshot mode. This app will still be able to process images and caption them. It will just lose the ability to take direct screenshots.
I am on the Cinnamon Desktop so X isn’t going away anytime soon.
I made a flatpak but I’m unable to set prefix=/app to make install. It is trying to install at /usr/local. The HotShots program compiles, but having prefix issue. If you could help me with this, I’ll help you with the flatpak.
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local’: Read-only file system
Here’s a unfinished HotShots flatpak manifest for you:
Thank you, here is a config file that goes in /home/USERNAME/.var/app/io.github.HotShots/config/TheHive I use to make the program better. It has key bindings like 'A" for arrow, “T” for text. “R” for rectangle ect… " ` " to delete (odd choice but it works for me)
