GNOME includes much better games than xsol & puzzle already, so they
have a replacement there. 8-)
xmac is most likely replaced by GIMP & ImageMagick, if you can still
find any interesting MacPaint format image files.
And as Mahmood mentioned, if you just want examples of drawing random
things on your screen, we've got over 100 hacks in the xscreensaver
collection for doing that.
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Jon K Aimone wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry if I'm just way out of touch here, but what makes them obsolete?
> Declaring they are obsolete implies they've been replaced by something
> newer, better, faster, etc.
>
>
> Mahmood Ali - Sun Microsystems said the following on 07/30/08 12:28 PM:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I am removing these demo programs from open solaris since they are
>> obsolete.
>> Let me know if this is going to cause significant heartache to u ;-)
>> We have much better demo programs in /usr/X11/lib/xscreensaver/hacks.
>>
>> plaid paint some plaid-like patterns in an X window
>> ico animate an icosahedron or other polyhedron
>> maze an automated maze program
>> xmac display Apple MacPaint image files under X windows
>> xsol /xsol/ plays a solitaire game simliar to Klondike.
>> puzzle 15-puzzle game for X
>> muncher draw interesting patterns in an X window
>> worm multicolored worms that crawl around the screen.
>>
>> --mahmood
>
