From: Justin Mason (jm at domain jmason.org)
Date: Thu 11 Jul 2002 - 11:14:10 IST
kevin lyda said:
> however to me, xset, xmodmap, xdpyinfo, xauth (and its inferior cousin
> xhost), xrdb all meet that criteria. the former is particularly
> tragic since it seems both kde and gtk people ditched x resources
> since xresources were "hard." pfeh. now gnome/gtk apps from the three
> local boxes i use all come up looking different (server gtk apps come
> up default, laptop ones are using the squishiest theme i could find
> and my workstation has a larger hi-contrast theme). if gnome/gtk used
> x resources the apps would get the info from the xserver they'd all
> look alike.
Agreed!! But with caveats. I bet the GNOME/KDE folks decided that X
resources were (a) too confusing for users (which is true, editing
~/.Xdefaults is a pain in the ass, constantly requiring manpage lookups to
find out what the name of the latest widget/app/resource is *). So they
decided to create their own config system -- which is now confusing and a
pain in the ass for users, in turn.
(* I have a vague feeling that "editres" is supposed to help here, but
about 3/4 of the windows on my desktop don't respond to it -- even the
ones which still use resources ;)
--j.
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