Re: RGSG

["Dan Kaminsky" <effugas best com>]

>> >> Edit can be worthless, but only in games.
>> >whoops?
>> >
>> >ghostview? gimp, btw. also doesn't have an edit menu...
>>
>> Ghostview.  Copy the onscreen image as a big hunka hunka burning bitmap.
>also called "export file". :)


Ooh, you said the four letter F word.  I'm telling.

>> Paste and cut aren't appropriate.  (Well, unless you want to paste a big
>> piece of postscript into a new image for ghostview to grab, or maybe if
you
>> want to render some stuff by ghostview, just paste in the appropriate
>> postscript?)
>nothing like that is supported by gv. this is a DISPLAY program, not a
>postscript editor!
>for simplicity: what would you put into the edit menu in xosview?


Copy screenshot(graphic) or copy text readout of meters for emailing
purposes.  The copy context should be switchable in menu.

>
>> GIMP doesn't have edit...hurm, weird case, very thin place for
>> the menu to go I guess, but if GIMP truly doesn't have any facilites for
>> cut/paste, then that's a bug, C1 level with gnome compliance, because I
use
>> cut/paste all the time in photoshop.
>
>of course it can cut and paste and 756 other things. it still doesn't have
>an edit menu.


Yeah it does, in the root.  Anyway, I accept that when there's not room to
put the menu, it can go somewhere else, as long as the standard keybindings
work.