Spectacle: Open files from disk

spectacle has better defaults than gwenview and takes fewer steps to accomplish the job.

also it’s just nice to have the option of going back to a screen grab to add something you forgot without having to go thru a completely separate app.

so the question i have is which is better for a new Spectacl(E)™ option?

  1. service menu ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/
  2. separate .desktop file ~/.local/share/applications/

i like option 2. because then i can have it show up under the Open with ... menu.

4 easy steps:

right click on the Applications Menu and choose “Edit Applications…”

then go settings > applications > file associations

all annotations were done from right clicking on the existing Meta+PrinScr captures of the open settings windows and choosing Spectacl(E) as the program.

edit: just made a slight correction (addition) to the first image… using Spectacl(E)

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