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Re: ooh, ooh! more nitpicking
- From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 17:39:41 -0400
- Subject: Re: ooh, ooh! more nitpicking
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- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Jack,
Yeah, that is definitely a feature that people getting paid to program
would implement. :)
I think we have many more fundamental problems to solve before we worry
about such issues.
Harold
Jack Tanner wrote:
So I love the fact that my X-forwarded apps now show up in the Alt-Tab
list with their proper icons. Except that now there's no way to
distinguish at a glance between, say, a Mozilla running locally and a
Mozilla running remotely -- they have the same icon.
How about this for overloading a simple feature and opening a gazillion
cans of worms: the icon shown for each X application in the Alt-Tab list
(as well as in the taskbar, for completeness sake), gets it's default
icon but with an faint X11-style letter "X" in the background. This
letter X should be visible no matter what my system colors are.
As a bonus point, the number of the X display should be embedded next to
the X to disambiguate between the same application being shown on
different X servers, but this bonus functionality should only be enabled
if more than one X server is actually running.
Flames to /dev/null; granted, this is a silly idea but it does point out
a problem. Additional information could be sought by seeing how other
application-forwarding software (e.g., VNC, NetMeeting, PC Anywhere,
Citrix Metaframe or their ilk) disambiguate under such circumstances, or
if they bother to do anything at all.
For those still reading, here's an entertaining note: the citrix.com
site currently carries an ad which reads "Citrix embraces and extends
Windows Server 2003".
-JT