DONE! Re: Gnome Screenshots
Keven Ring
keven at mitre.org
Mon May 10 17:59:38 UTC 2004
John Fleming wrote:
>
>Starting to regret I started this... ;-) Incredibly OT now.
>I know about the WIN stuff - If you have to use Windows, you should try to
>find a free copy of Printkey2000 - really "enables" the Print key to be a
>whole more intuitive and useful.
>
>
Actually, I would take this as an argument [albeit minor] for convincing
people to actually switch. Many of the complaints about switching to
linux revolve around "limited application availability". The points
here are
1) What MS provided was crap [an effectively non-functioning
Print-Screen button]
2) 3rd Party software [possibly not Free [as in speech -or- beer]] need
be installed to make the system "useful"
3) It works as expected *Right out of the box* in Linux, and is
typically *mostly compatible*(1) with the way similar functions are
performed in Windows Land.
The fact that we are talking about a rather insignificant button on a
keyboard isn't the point - the general truth is [IMO] pervasive
throughout the MS World.
(1) Not to be confused with "Mostly Harmless"
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