Bug#389864: rgb text database replaced by static table
Brice Goglin writes:
> Hi Giacomo,
>
> I guess this problem with the RGB database being replaced by a
> static table still occurs wth latest xserver-xorg-core 1.3, right?
> For the record, it looks like we could revert to the old behavior
> by defining USE_RGB_BUILTIN to 0 during the build (see
> os/oscolor.c). However, I am not sure it is worth doing it.
imho, it's worth doing because the X rgb database has been severely
criticized for its unfair distribution of colors [1], in particular
darkest one, and a user/sysadm that want to define (add) new symbolic
color names to X can *only* resort to editing rgb.txt
otoh, kpackard himself changed the default behaviour...
to sum it up, my answer is #define USE_RGB_BUILTIN 0, and i
appreciated very much that you took the time to ask: thank you
ciao
gb
[1] http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/Color/Dictionaries.html#X11
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