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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdebase/kcontrol/krdb
From:       Karol Szwed <kszwed () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-01-30 13:08:13
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On 2003-01-29 11:43:06, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> I don't understand this resources stuff, but since the other file is called 
>.Xdefaults, shouldn't it be read as the very first one? Or maybe even not to 
>read at all, since it will(?) be already there? And BTW there's a similar 
>code in kdebase/kcontrol/colors/colorscm.cpp.

quote from http://tam.cornell.edu/Computer/tips.html:
"Use of old-style .Xdefaults files is discouraged. The newer .Xresources file 
provides the same functionality but works better. See man xrdb for more 
information. The .Xresources file has the same format as a .Xdefaults file."

On some systems, (eg SuSE I think), ~/.Xdefaults is symlinked to ~/.Xresources 
as ~/.Xdefaults is pretty much deprecated now. On my system, I don't even 
have ~/.Xdefaults, only ~/.Xresources for this reason. The code simply merges 
in the "new-style" ~/.Xresources if it exists, or falls back to merging in 
the "old-style" ~/.Xdefaults.

Lubos, why did you add the xrdb call there in colorscm.cpp, instead of hiding 
that nastyness in krdb?

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