From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] earliest paint program for X
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:04:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8799ADBE-5EEC-4226-AB19-EED7C8AF8473@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADxT5N7AzHvzfmFc5xjgQAxovVjP-P1Numn=qPsa7cvVwaa1hg@mail.gmail.com>
There might have been a simpler icon editor. My memory of the early X stuff is pretty hazy.
> On Jul 11, 2016, at 6:52 PM, Mark Longridge <cubexyz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, I hope this question isn't too off-topic...
>
> I was looking through the X10R3 source tree trying to find the
> earliest paint program for X. I wasn't able to see anything that
> looked like a paint program.
>
> Xpaint might be the oldest, wikipedia says the first version appeared in 1989.
>
> Searching for xpaint on tuhs returned no matches, but I saw that
> 4.3BSD-Tahoe had some old X programs but nothing listed there seemed
> to be a paint program.
>
> Maybe xgedit? It's listed as a "simple graphic editor for the X window
> system", but I don't know if it really qualifies as a paint program.
>
> Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-11 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-11 22:52 Mark Longridge
2016-07-11 23:04 ` Ronald Natalie [this message]
2016-07-11 23:05 ` Larry McVoy
2016-07-11 23:08 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-11 23:36 ` Random832
2016-07-11 23:56 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-12 1:17 ` Lawrence Stewart
2016-07-11 23:05 ` Joerg Schilling
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