Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!ucbvax!CS.CHALMERS.SE!bernerus From: bernerus@CS.CHALMERS.SE (Christer Bernerus) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: -iconic option Message-ID: Date: 29 Jan 91 06:53:49 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 34 Excerpts from info-andrew: 28-Jan-91 Re: -iconic option Bill Janssen@parc.xerox. (365+0) > Excerpts from ext.andrew: 28-Jan-91 -iconic option Tim > Fairclough@rchland.i (456) >> This option is one that is listed in the X Toolkit Intrinsics >> Programming manual as a standard command line option. > Andrew is not an X Toolkit Intrinsics-based toolkit. When discussing useful features -- who cares about what toolkit an application is built upon ? I've been missing the possibility of starting e.g. help into an icon when I log on. I don't give a damn what you would call such a flag, but > one suggestion is -iconic. > One of the more useful things about it, from my perspective, is that > it does not expose X overly much. One of those useful things is of course the inability to cut/paste > between X and Andrew applications without playing special tricks ?? :-( Chris. ------------------------------------------------------- Christer Bernerus ! E-mail: bernerus@cs.chalmers.se Chalmers University of Technology ! Phone: +46 31 721000 Department of Computer Science ! Ham radio: SM6FBQ 144.3 MHz S-412 96 Gothenburg, SWEDEN