| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 478.1 | | QUARK::LIONEL | The dream is alive | Sun Mar 26 1989 17:11 | 6 |
| I would presume that pointers like the Enterprise and Gumby were
removed because they would be infringements on trademarks. I'm
surprised that they were put there in the first place.
Steve
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| 478.2 | xsetroot anyone? | LDP::RYAN | Bron-Yr-Aur | Mon Mar 27 1989 09:45 | 21 |
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re: .0
> Can someone please tell me how to 1) add these cursors to the session
> manager pointer customization menu, or 2) change them with a program
> if it is not possible to add them to the menu.
xsetroot.exe can change the cursor (as well as other things) to
any bitmap file (16x16) you wish. Also you can only use colors
defined by you're system (they're in decw$rcb.com I believe). I
don't know how to add them to the session manager though. I have
a copy of xsetroot, as well as many cursors I've made (including
ncc1701), if you would like any of the files they're @
XPANES::$DISK2:[ryan.junk.bitmap]
Tony
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| 478.3 | Look at DECW$SM_GENERAL.DAT | POBOX::KOCH | No matter where you go, there you are. | Mon Mar 27 1989 13:33 | 3 |
| Look in your decw$sm_general.dat file. There is a resource for
pointer called sm.pointer_shape. Set to 22 for the pencil.
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| 478.4 | If it isn't ours, don't use it | SMURF::HOFFMAN | anywhere in the universe | Thu Apr 06 1989 13:43 | 25 |
| I removed the Gumby glyph from ULTRIX DECwindows (UWS V2.0 VAX
and, more recently, UWS V2.1 RISC) to reduce our product's exposure
to lawyers. You know the kind I mean: the ones who think they
can get millions from a big company like ours just because we might have
to ignore their company's legitimate right to exclusive control
of their symbols. As it happens, the Gumby glyph and some others
have been distributed by the X Window Consortium but that doesn't
make it right. It just means those lawyers have a LOT of potential
sources of income.
You've heard it before, and you'll hear it some more.
It is extremely dangerous to the well-being of Digital Equipment
and to individual employees to use and distribute images
that belong to others. This is true for both bitmap and scanned
images.
It's hard enough keeping the lawyers off our backs when we're
trying to create standardized user interfaces. Let's not invite
trouble through negligent handling of silly little screen images.
There must be something that would do the job that isn't owned
by outside concerns.
John Hoffman
ULTRIX DECwindows Engineering
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