Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?
On Friday 24 October 2003 09:57 am, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Presumably because he normally uses a GUI file manager (Konqueror or
> some equivalent) and it would be convenient, if one already had a window
> open on some directory, to simply select "Print" from the menu to get a
> hardcopy of the directory listing, in the same format as it appears on
> the screen. Essentially, he's suggesting that a view of a directory in a
> GUI file manager should be considered a "document" that can be printed,
> just as one can print a web page from a browser or a text file from an
> editor. This seems perfectly sensible to me; I've never understood why
> file managers don't provide this functionality.
Indeed, and Netscape does this. Why doesn't Mozilla, I wonder?
(as of 1.0.0 anyway -- maybe it does now?).
I agree that this is an oddly missing feature.
Cheers,
Terry
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Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com )
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com
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