Webshots on linux?

[Bill Warner]

I had though about something like this before also.  kind of a slashdot effect
website specificly to request features from diffrent companys.  Idealy this
would be a list of software/hardware companys with products that would do
well under linux.  an email to that company with the most important person
you could find.  along with a brief message about what their product is and
how it could be usefull to linux people.

The bad thing about this is it would probly be prone to flames to the company
rather than well thought out requests for features.

Bill Warner

Lucas Vogel wrote:

> You know, I've bugged numerous companies for different things(all pertaining
> to Linux), and I've found that the less the person you complain to hears
> from, the less they hear you overall. I propose we set up some kind of a
> 'bitch list', where we list the names and contact information, and the
> feature/request/complaint of the company we are trying to get to listen to
> us, and those of us who decide to participate can help by adding a chorus to
> their call. Here we're talking about a feature for webshots.com. I just got
> done wrestling with HP support about scanner support. The smaller the
> number, the higher tendency to ignore. I say we fight! We fight by all
> complaining at once! Send me the contact information and I'll echo your
> request.
>
> Lucas Vogel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Warner
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> Sent: 7/10/00 11:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Webshots on linux?
>
> Mark Berkwitt wrote:
>
> >  Is it possible to display webshots.com photos on my linux desktop?
> >
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> I saw this and though it might be kind of cool.  I downloaded and used
> wine to install (with no troubles at all) fired it up and was able to
> browse
> the thumbnail versions of the pictures.  everything seemed to run great
> under
> wine but yet I dont think wine knows how to set the root window so I was
>
> unable to get the pictures to set as my background.  they are also in a
> propritary
> compression format that wont let you export the webshots copyrighted
> pictures from them.
>
> I guess the only other choice would be to bug them to make a linux
> version
> prefrebly with great gnome and kde support.
>
> Bill Warner
>
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