Re: do we really need xrdb?

[Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>]

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 13:18 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> acroread 5
> Emacs
> Anything written in Tk (aMSN, crossover office, much corporate custom
> software)
> Anything written in Motif (slowly being replaced, but still a lot of
> software)
> Anything written in XForms (oddly, a lot of scientific software...)
> Apps that ship with the X server: xterm, xedit, xclock, etc.
> 
> Anything else?

All X software which isn't written in GTK+ or Qt.

> So, do we really want to keep around the xrdb thing in
> gnome-settings-daemon?

Yes, really.  Lots of people use Emacs and this is responsible for
making it not stand out like a sore thumb.  How about a check box in
Prefences->Theme, "[X] Apply colour theme to legacy applications"?

Ross
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