Re: [PATCH] some performance improvements

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 13:35 -0400, Benjamin Kahn wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 12:58 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > 
> > Then again, I would also wonder if there is any particular reason to
> > keep xrdb merging around at all. How many applications on a normal
> > desktop actually need this stuff?
> 
> Well, lets get a quick list.  Lots of this stuff won't be needed
> anymore, probably:
> 
> acroread 5
> Emacs

How many people still use Acroread 5 though? They're at 7 now, and
moving as much as possible to GTK+, so it will get the theme anyway.

Emacs already has GTK2 support as well, and most of them, people
complain that gnome screws up the Emacs colors. :)

> 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?

Do all of these actually end up with the right colors and fonts though?

-- dobey