Re: [gnome-love] GNOME user environment brainstorming

[Calum Benson <calum benson ireland sun com>]

Glynn Foster wrote:

> /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 :/

Could we ship a new key with every copy of GNOME labelled "Take
Screenshot" instead?  :)

You're right, it's labelled "Print Screen" for historical reasons, but
it *would* be nice to have it take a screenshot, I think-- on Windoze,
PrintScreen takes a snap of the whole desktop, and Alt+PrintScreen just
the focused window.  It's useful, but we could do better... e.g. pop up
a dialog offering to Save, Copy to Clipboard, Open in GIMP etc.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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