Re: Great SWT Program

On Nov 30, 6:45 am, b...@xxxxxxxxxxx (Bent C Dalager) wrote:
Ah, so now you've officially shifted from trying to win the debate on
merits to trying to win it on insult-points? [misattribution deleted]
[insults deleted]

No, I'm just noting that you responded to something I wrote with
nothing but insults, implying that you didn't have anything actually
substantive to offer in the way of logically-reasoned disagreement.

Your further insults and trying to put words in my mouth now only
serve to confirm this.

And, of course, none of the nasty things that you have said or implied
about me are at all true.

Another direct hit!

Your imagination is working overtime today? :-)

I don't think so. If it wasn't a direct hit, why did you respond with
vitriol and invective instead of reason?

What are you babbling about? All that happens when I hit print screen
or alt-print screen is that it silently takes a screenshot of either
the whole screen or the active window, respectively.

Which bit of "part of the screen" was difficult to parse?

None. But if I want a specific subset of one window, I can crop the
result in a paint program. There's no need for wonky modeful behavior
in the window manager proper, and so there is none.

The amazing thing about GUIs is that things that get in your way can
be moved, minimized, closed, etc.

How cumbersome! You have to move all sorts of stuff to the side just
so you can take that partial screenshot?

It's not as cumbersome as having to do a bunch of stuff completely
blind!

Capturing text from a text-based window manager is analogous to
capturing pixels from a graphical window manager.

If you have a containing app like an xterm yes. It has to have some
way of presenting a separate UI from whatever lies beneath of course;
an xterm can do so using whatever lies outside of the pane containing
the actual current contents of the text-mode session or can be
displayed above it when invoked (e.g. menus). Unless, of course, the
designer is willing to make the user do whatever they wish to do
blind...

[insult deleted]

None of the nasty things that you have said or implied about me are at
all true.
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