https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470369

--- Comment #14 from [email protected] ---
(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #13)
> Rather than putting this into spectacle itself, it would be more useful to
> make a generic "view any image/mimetype" in a PIP window.
> 
> From a spectacle POV this then becomes just another "Open With..."

That is something I have attempted without much success - to do it well
requires more skill than I have and a viewer I haven't found.

The two barriers for me to this being as good as 'real' pinning like Flameshot:
1. Placement and geometry. 
In Flameshot pinning (I have a single "p" hotkey) leaves the pin exactly in
place, and I can move it slightly up/down. In my experiments with lightweight
viewers like imv/feh/display, Spectacle doesn't pass any info that would tell
them where to place the PIP window.  So instead of being perfectly in position
for comparisons, the PIP window is in the wrong position or even wrong monitor,
which gives a jarring context shift.

2. Speed.
Even lightweight viewers seem to have a noticeable delay, whereas building it
into the screenshot tool means it can be rendered effectively instantly.

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