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Ben de Groot posted on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:28:24 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> On 4 March 2010 08:08, Joshua Saddler <nightmorph@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Your logic is very thin here. By that same line of reasoning, neither |
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>> are the gtk or qt flags, since you don't need 'em if you're building, |
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>> say, a *box desktop. |
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> Toolkits are more directly useful to a desktop than printing. |
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>> Printing is something I'd argue is part of a desktop environment. |
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> And I'd argue it isn't necessarily so. |
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Indeed. Some (many?) of us use printing uncommonly enough that it's |
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cheaper to put it on a thumb drive and take it to a printer than buy a |
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printer -- and pay for another $10-30 ink cartridge every time we want to |
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print something, because the last one dried up between uses. (I keep |
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thinking I'll buy a laser printer, but never seem to get around to doing |
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the research on best supported, etc, and always seem to have other things |
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to spend the money on. Besides, the tech keeps getting better, so a bit |
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of delay isn't hurting... which I've been saying for years now. How many |
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are in a similar position?) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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