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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