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From: stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Client Ethics/Etiquette
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Date: 9 Feb 91 00:26:11 GMT
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In article <1991Feb8.191904.14630@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, ejk@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Kubaitis) writes:
||> This strikes me as unethical, or at least impolite, behavior in an X
|> client. Shouldn't only the user or a display manager acting on the user's
|> behalf mess around with server font paths and the resource database?

Not only that, such action by the program may also be completely useless.
Given that X is designed as a networking window systems, the font path
might not even exist on the machine the server is running on!
(Or is InfoExplorer clever enough to figure out whether the server is
running on an IBM machine, too?  I doubt it.)
-- 
Andreas Stolcke					stolcke@icsi.berkeley.edu
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