[desktop-discuss] Weaning myself off /usr/dt/bin

[Ian Collins]

Peter Tribble wrote:

> On 2/8/07, Laszlo (Laca) Peter <laca at sun.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> You can use gimp's File -> Acquire -> Screenshot.
>
>
> So you can. And it works quite well. Thanks for the tip!
>
> (This has the additional advantage over sdtimage that I can save
> in png format, which is something that would have been nice for
> sdtimage to do.)
>
> The downside is the following:
>
> % ptime sdtimage -snapshot
>
> real        1.526
> user        0.055
> sys         0.024
>
> % ptime gimp
> This is a development version of GIMP.  Debug messages may appear here.
>
>
> real       12.191
> user        7.342
> sys         0.569
>
> And it took very much longer the first time I ran it...
>
But how much of that time was spent generating the png file?  Or were
you saving in the same format for both?

Ian