From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:04:18 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] earliest paint program for X In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8799ADBE-5EEC-4226-AB19-EED7C8AF8473@ronnatalie.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 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