Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!island!daniel
From: daniel@island.COM (Daniel Smith "innovation, not litigation...")
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: purpose of x logo?
Message-ID: <2366@island.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 91 20:43:11 GMT
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Organization: Island Graphics, Marin County, California
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> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
> Bill> This is probably a pretty dumb question -- but just what is the
> Bill> purpose of the "Xlogo" program?  I don't see a man page for it
> Bill> in my Esix docs.


	1) isn't it based on some athena widget?  In that case, it's
	a working example.

	2) make it full size and hide all your important work under it
	when you go to lunch :-)

	3) marketing departments probably lobbied for it, so that they
	could design ads where they can "prove" that their product runs
	with X (you almost always see xlogo running in ads and at shows :-)

	4) harmless program to experiment with when trying to grok
	X resource specifications (changing colors, size, placement).

	5) ESIX is obviously missing out some important documentation!

				Daniel

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Could we continue with the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing-Data:TNG