Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:02:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Irving Popovetsky <irvingp@puck.nether.net> To: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Screen Shot Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980418162626.5116C-100000@puck.nether.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980418161700.15725M-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org>
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Well, okay, so maybe one of the afterstep screenshots isnt a good idea to show :) I must say that one of the most impressive screenshots I have seen have been the ones on E's page that have demonstrated both form and function. One that I remember clearly is a screenshot where the guy was running (he fit quite a lot on his dekstop), Adobe Photoshop for macintosh, Mirc for windows 95 (to demonstrate windows emulation), Corel WordPerfect for UNIX, a few X apps (which I dont remember... maybe quake?), plus he had a little window open, that in readable text explained what was running on his desktop. no gore, no exploitation of women. KDE, on their page, also demonstrate a very businesslike and professional image. Anyway, we should put together some of our own screenshots, to create our own image. I run a beautiful 1280x1024 display and various WMs. I could put together some pretty screenshots of what kind of functionality I have, if only someone showed me how to make a screenshot (I dont know how, sorry): -Irving On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Robert Watson wrote: > Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 16:24:27 -0400 (EDT) > From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> > Reply-To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> > To: Irving Popovetsky <irvingp@puck.nether.net> > Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Screen Shot > > > So one unfortunate thing about the AfterStep and Enlightenment screen > shots is as follows: a number of people I showed them to indicated that > the objectified women (scantily clad) weren't so very encouraging when it > came to selecting a desktop for use in a business. They were more > interested in a professional-looking interface than this :). Microsoft, > for example, does not advertise their Scantily-Clad Women Desktop Theme as > a major feature of their windows products. While it would be unrealistic > to expect that people do not use X-Windows for this kind of thing, > attempting to advertise a product as a competitor with WindowsNT as a > business server platform might benefit from a little less of this :). > > On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Irving Popovetsky wrote: > > > Some of the most impressive screenshots that I have personally seen have > > been on the webpages of various Window Managers: > > > > www.enlightenment.org (enlightenment wm) > > www.afterstep.org (afterstep) > > www.kde.org (the K Desktop environment) > > > > in their screenshots gallieries. While most of these screenshots were > > taken on Linux boxen, its still just XFree86 that they are running, and I > > have been able to achieve similar on my FreeBSD box. > > > > But some of those look real pretty, and make just as great of an argument > > for us as they do for the linux people, maybe even a better one :) > > > > -Irving > > > > On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Adrian T. Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > > > Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 15:22:29 -0400 (EDT) > > > From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> > > > Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@virginia.edu> > > > To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> > > > Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > > > Subject: Re: Screen Shot > > > > > > On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Malartre wrote: > > > > > > > Hey, I have seen a lot of people who where wanting screen shot. > > > > Why not giving them the screen shot on www.freebsd.org? > > > > > > > > Like a link on the first page to "what freebsd look like" > > > > > > > > Unix seems strange to new user... > > > > > > Well, I doubt a single screen shot coulw convey much of anything. > > > There are just too many things that could be on a FreeBSD display. What > > > would it be: X, emacs, the console, quake2, etc.? > > > > > > I suppose one rather impressive image involving FreeBSD is the > > > Toshiba Libretto picture from the PAO project page. I just love that the > > > X11 is runnig on FreeBSD o a computer that is not as deep as the SUN mouse > > > next to it. > > > > > > Adrian > > > -- > > > adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and > > > System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, > > > Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... > > > http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > -Irving Popovetsky > > ANS Communications - BigDial Operations Assistant > > Pioneer High School - Webmaster > > > > grok: /grok/, var. /grohk/ vt. [from the novel "Stranger in a Strange > > Land", by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally > > `to drink' and metaphorically `to be one with'] The emphatic form is `grok > > in fullness'. 1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes > > intimate and exhaustive knowledge. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > > > > Robert N Watson > > > ---- > Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ > Trusted Information Systems http://www.tis.com/ > SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ > robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ > -Irving Popovetsky ANS Communications - BigDial Operations Assistant Pioneer High School - Webmaster grok: /grok/, var. /grohk/ vt. [from the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally `to drink' and metaphorically `to be one with'] The emphatic form is `grok in fullness'. 1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes intimate and exhaustive knowledge. 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