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From: abm@alan.aux.apple.com (Alan Mimms)
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Subject: Re: Not impressed with MacX
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Date: 1 Dec 90 06:02:23 GMT
References: <1990Nov28.150000.3600@csc.anu.oz.au> <1990Nov28.234514.9078@julius.cs.uiuc.edu> <1990Nov29.230100.18696@Think.COM>
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In article <1990Nov29.230100.18696@Think.COM>, barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
|> In article <1990Nov28.234514.9078@julius.cs.uiuc.edu> coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
|> >hrf900@fac5.anu.oz.au (Hugh Fisher) writes:
|> >>Isn't it obvious that
|> >>-bw 2 means round cornered rectangle window?
|> >An alternative might have
|> >been to require a '.windowstyle' declaration in the resources
|> >database or a per-client setting in MacX; however, that doesn't
|> >address setting style from the command line. It also doesn't
|> >address having clients with multiple window styles (I'm running
|> >epoch with two different styles, for instance).
|> 
|> Standard Unix X clients accept an argument (I think it's "-rm") that allows
|> arbitrary resource settings to be specified for that client.  Wouldn't that
|> address setting style from the command line and having clients with
|> different styles?

I hope to be able to correct this and a few other things at which people
are sniping about MacX in a future release (can you say "2.0"?).
Good suggestion, and it's one that was obvious from approximately the
day AFTER the last possible date that such things could be changed in
MacX 1.0 during the "now I've got time to catch my breath" stage just
before MacX shipped.

Such is life when products are produced by too few people working too
hard.

|> --
|> Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.
|> 
|> barmar@think.com
|> {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar

-- 

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