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From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: X/Cygwin icon proposal Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 00:12:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <405B4523.8030903@msu.edu> (raw) In-Reply-To: <B74CF8E243E50A43B2562370EBD9DBEC15A4C3@heis-2000server.heis.co.uk> Phil Betts wrote: > Hi Harold, > > First off, as this is my first submission to the list, I'd like to > extend my thanks > to you and all of the other contributors to Cygwin/X. Glad you like it. >>Harold L Hunt II wrote: >>1) A Japanese user has reported that the new icon was garbled on his >>Windows NT (I believe) system. This is an isolated case so far and I >>think it is due to something with that particular system and is not >>something that we should worry about unless it starts getting reported > > more. > > This is a pretty mature list, followed by the sort of people who can > resist the > urge to send in "me too" messages. I suspect that there are others like > me who > saw the original fault report and thought "OK, it's been logged already, > I'll await > the results". Therefore, please don't discount solitary fault reports. I have to discount them... I can't think of everything that gets reported once as a bonifed problem. You are right, the list is mature, but people should know that *at least one other person* should speak up to verify that they also have the same problem as another is reporting. This is essential and I am pretty amazed that no one did speak up in this case, until now. > FWIW, here are my observations on the discussion so far: > > a) It makes no sense to inflict a random splodge on users of older OSes, > just > because a newer OS is able to display a prettier version of the current > icon. As I have said before, this is a technical question getting lots of personal and emotional answers. Let me make this perfectly clear for everyone that is getting tied up on this issue: 1) Possible to have alpha icon that doesn't mess with older versions of Windows --> Our default icon will have alpha versions. 2) Alpha icons always mess with older versions of windows --> Our default icon will *not* have alpha versions. There is no room for discussion on this, it is a simple technical question of "is this possible or not". Please, refrain from discussing personal opinions, speculation about what version of Windows people are using, etc. I have always aimed to support the minimum subset of features available on all versions of Windows since 95 and I am not going to deviate from that on the icon issue. > b) As a user of an older OS, I would gladly live with an amorphous > blotch if you > could get the clipboard to work with emacs! Umm... the clipboard should work with emacs... if it does not, then that is a problem. You are using the -clipboard parameter from a recent version (xserv-4.3.0-59) and *not* using xwinclip, right? This was fixed ages ago if you are referring to the selection highlight disappearing. Harold
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-19 19:08 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top [not found] <B74CF8E243E50A43B2562370EBD9DBEC15A4C3@heis-2000server.heis.co.uk> 2004-03-20 0:12 ` Harold L Hunt II [this message] 2004-03-19 16:10 Orrigo, Giampaolo . -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below -- 2004-03-19 5:45 Michael Bax 2004-03-19 5:49 ` Harold L Hunt II 2004-03-19 14:53 ` Igor Pechtchanski 2004-03-19 17:59 ` Jehan Bing 2004-03-18 23:39 Earle F. Philhower, III 2004-03-18 23:51 ` Harold L Hunt II 2004-03-19 2:48 ` Nahor 2004-03-18 23:14 Earle F. Philhower, III 2004-03-18 23:22 ` Harold L Hunt II 2004-03-18 20:43 Earle F. Philhower, III 2004-03-18 22:26 ` Nahor [not found] <IMEDKPLHDOLIKADDEMBGKEGBCEAA.bax3.NO@SPAM.bigfoot.com> [not found] ` <c3cl67$i8g$1@sea.gmane.org> 2004-03-18 17:43 ` Alexander Gottwald 2004-03-18 18:15 ` Nahor 2004-03-18 19:12 ` Alexander Gottwald 2004-03-18 19:30 ` Harold L Hunt II 2004-03-18 18:46 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl [not found] <IMEDKPLHDOLIKADDEMBGCEDBCEAA.bax3.NO@SPAM.bigfoot.com> [not found] ` <c2l08r$s95$1@sea.gmane.org> 2004-03-10 2:44 ` Harold L Hunt II 2004-03-10 3:02 ` Nahor 2004-03-10 3:18 ` Harold L Hunt II [not found] ` <c2nko7$uba$1@sea.gmane.org> 2004-03-10 18:00 ` Harold L Hunt II [not found] ` <c2nm3d$2kg$1@sea.gmane.org> 2004-03-11 13:20 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl [not found] ` <c2qaku$c5c$1@sea.gmane.org> 2004-03-11 19:33 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl 2004-03-11 20:07 ` Alexander Gottwald 2004-03-11 21:24 ` Nahor 2004-03-11 21:34 ` Harold L Hunt II 2004-03-12 6:09 ` Earle F. Philhower III 2004-03-12 6:14 ` Harold L Hunt II 2004-03-12 6:48 ` Earle F. Philhower III 2004-03-13 8:30 ` Earle F. Philhower III 2004-03-13 9:50 ` Harold L Hunt II 2004-03-12 12:59 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl 2004-03-12 16:51 ` Nahor 2004-03-12 17:42 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl 2004-03-12 17:49 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl 2004-03-09 1:34 David Arnstein 2004-03-09 4:39 ` Igor Pechtchanski
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