On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:57:29AM +1200, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > 1. Screen resolution (72 DPI) is different from the printer > resolution (> 200 DPI).
200 is rather low for a printer nowadays, i would not print anything of quality unter 600, 1200 sounds more ideal... but yes, once you close that gap things do look quite different. > The GIMP will never replace Photoshop > because free software cannot afford the cost of implementing the > Pantone� colour scheme. couldn't they just clone it, and never claim it's pantone? just like linux doesn't claim it's unix because it couldn't afford it? > Anyway, it is all by the by as everyone should get hard and learn LaTeX like my grandma (83) > > what are global menues? > Global menus are things like the GNOME menu, the KDE menu, the Clip menu > in WindowMaker, the root menu in TWM... ok, what's so good about those? i hate them, they absolutely don't help me in finding the apps i need. they are just a list of names, and i have to know what each does if i know the name then i am faster tying it in, then searching it in those menus. if i want to browse through the apps then i don't need a menu, it's easier to do in a filemanager where i can study the lists and look at them with reasonable sized icons. NeXTstep did not have global menues, and i believe MacOSX doesn't either. > > copy and paste IS a problem though. > > while i do like the speed of X pasting, the fact that i can't select > > two things and replace the second selection > > with the first is often annoying. > Try using the Cut and Paste menu options for doing this. yes, i am aware of the workarounds, they are not yet standardized and not ideal. ideal would be to allow a second selection (in a different color) so that i can see primary and secondary selection, and then have middle-click replace secondary with primary. you could then also allow things like, if the middle-click does not happen in the secondary selection, then primary is forgotten, and secondary turns to primary and gets inserted wherever you clicked. that allows for a fast select and replace while keeping backwards compatibility. speaking of cut and paste, does anyone know why xterm looses the selection if i am running things like irc and the content of the terminal changes? it does not happen in other programs running in the terminal, only those that use curses or the like... greetings, martin. -- looking for a job anywhere in the world, doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium /pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration. -- pike programmer open-steam.org (www.archlab|(www|db).hb2).tuwien.ac.at unix (iaeste|bahai).or.at iaeste.tuwien.ac.at systemadministrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.(schon.org|root.at) Martin B"ahr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
