Graphical boot isn't so graphical

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Sun Jul 27 02:59:53 UTC 2003


Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 06:24:48PM -0400 or thereabouts, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
>>>Is it also a "Gnome team" issue that eliminated the screen shooter that
>>>was in 7.3 and replaced it with a far inferior one?  Can anything be done
>>>about that?
>>
>>It was replaced with a much saner one. I think you are the first person 
>>I've met who counts it as better 8) Yes this was part of the Gnome teams 
>>focus on usability
> 
> 
> Ahem. 
> 
> I miss the old one. The "delay x seconds" was vital for screenshots
> for docs and bugs (especially bugs in menus). So does whoever filed
> this and its duplicate: 
> 
> "gnome-panel-screenshot needs a timeout option": 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79189


What's wrong with "Alt+Print Screen"?  You can hit those keys at any 
time to get a screenshot of the currently focused window, which seems 
way more useful than trying to predict how much time you need to 
properly prepare any UI for a screenshot.






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