On 20/07/2015 20:14, Mouse wrote:
I happened to be looking at http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html and I noticed some oddities which might call for fixing. This is the only place I could find for reporting such issues, though of course it's entirely possible
This is the correct place to report such issues.
I missed something; FAQ item 1.9 makes me think there should be somewhere better, but on reading http://cygwin.com/lists.html (as linked to by the FAQ), it's not clear what it would be. In FAQ item 1.9, I find Cygwin/X has a mailing list, namely, cygwin@cygwin.com. [...] Tip: Post your X-related inquires to cygwin@cygwin.com only; do not post nor cross post your inquires to the cygwin@cygwin.com mailing list. [...] Surely those list addresses shouldn't _all_ be the same...?
This piece of text obviously doesn't make much sense after the search-and-replace which happened when the cygwin-xfree list was deprecated.
I've removed the self-contradictory sentence.
While less important, I also find 12.8. Isn't "XWin" trademarked by StarNet Communications? No. A quick search at the United States Patent and Trademark Office for "XWin" [...] The question does not specify a jurisdiction; that XWin is not a relevant trademark in the USA does not mean it's not elsewhere. (While I'm not aware of any where it is, I haven't gone looking. I'm mostly just trying to counter the "the USA is the whole world" tendency I see creeping in here as it already has far too many other places.)
I don't know why this is in the FAQ. It seems to record the discussion at [1].
How would you suggest rewriting this? [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q2/msg01052.html -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple