Re: Major feature that is missing in gnome
- From: Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>
- To: John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>
- Cc: desktop-devel <desktop-devel-list gnome org>, Eugene Oconnor sun com
- Subject: Re: Major feature that is missing in gnome
- Date: 10 Jan 2003 16:43:58 +1300
Hey,
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 16:32, John Fleck wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 20:20, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 01:01, Eugene O'Connor wrote:
> > > Before this discussion began, I understood that there were two meanings of
> > > "desktop" in use:
> > >
> > > 1. GNOME desktop: The sum of all parts of GNOME, the complete environment. For
> > > example, "The GNOME desktop is an easy to use windows-based environment for
> > > users."
> > > 2. desktop: The Nautilus definition - background + icons. For example, "Use
> > > Nautilus to draw the desktop", "Use your home folder as the desktop".
> > >
> > > Now we have a third meaning:
> > >
> > > 3. desktop: background + icons + panels. For example, the "Show Desktop" button.
> > >
> >
> > Just to through a 4th definition on to the fire ...
> >
> > The tooltip for the screenshot button is
> >
> > "Take a screenshot of your desktop"
> >
>
> Perhaps we can save Pat and Eugene some heartburn and whittle this back
> down to three confused definitions by changing the tooltip[1] to:
>
> "Take a screenshot"
Ah but that's no fun ... well, okay then ...
:-)
Good Luck,
Mark.
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