Record Button?

[Andrew Clausen <clausen alphalink com au>]

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• From: Andrew Clausen <clausen alphalink com au>
• To: Dan Kaminsky <effugas best com>
• Subject: Re: Record Button?
• Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 08:30:38 +1000

Dan Kaminsky wrote:

> Should every window have a record button, right up there next to minimize
> and maximize?  There are two types of recording, of course:  Macro
> recording, and visual recording.  From what I can see of XLab, both are
> supported.
>
> I can see a number of uses for this:
>
> 1)  Macros For The Masses.  This is a Good Thing!
> 2)  MUCH easier tech support.  "Hi, I was using your application and it
> crashed.  Here, watch what I did to make that happen."
>
> VCR's have record buttons, so that's a Real World(what's that?) link.
>
> Only think I can't figure out would be how to visually separate record macro
> from record screenplay.  Maybe two buttons, one with a red dot and a camera,
> the other with a red dot and a set of footprints.
>
> Weirdest thing, went out tonight and my brain just kept on popping up with
> GNOME stuff...
>

Perhaps this is something that could go in that gnome-program-menu.

Andrew Clausen

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