Re: [gnome-love] GNOME user environment brainstorming

[Alan <alan ufies org>]

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 12:01:14AM +0100, Glynn Foster wrote:
> Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > 
> > > - make the Print Screen key take a screenshot
> > 
> > This is one beautiful idea.   Where should this go though?  The panel,
> > the window manager, the file manager?
> 
> /me imagines user [okay maybe semi/mostly-dumb user] press this key and 
> sit and stare at his/her printer for the next couple of minutes waiting
> for a printout of the screen which never appears. I'm not a big fan of
> this key :/
> I imagine it's a window manager thing though?

<Dumb user mode on>
What's a window manager?
</Dumb user mode off>

Seriously though, why should we make a distinction?  In the GUI world that 90%
of the world is used to (that'd be the other 90%, not a lot of *nix people
here) there is no such thing as a window manager, and some keys (such as
printscreen) are global. 

*I* understand the difference, but do you want to have to explain to your
granny why the key to take a screenshot is under the heading "window
manager"?  I think not :)  For this (and a couple of other "global" keys) I'd
almost say have a "key setup" entry that would be similar in purpose as the
sawfish "shortcuts" configuration, where you can set ALT-m to minimize
window, ALT-F4 to close, PrtScn to screenshot, etc.

My $0.02

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