Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 06:19:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gripe of the week (tm) :-) Message-ID: <199503210619.GAA00286@isl.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199503210616.IAA01367@grunt.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Mar 21, 95 08:16:31 am
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In reply to Mark Murray who said > > > This has been a long standing gripe of mine. The problem is that most > > X software expects to be able to play around in the X tree and I've seen > > enough cases of this to stop arguing about it. Think app-defaults if > > nothing else. > > I have seen enough evidence to consider app-defaults an exception. > how about separating "core" and "local", and just leave app-defaults? > If anything at all gets written to the X tree then it tends to negate the point. I think we should get in touch with the XFree86 folks and push to have the whole thing done properly. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.
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