Bug#4269: xosview has only XOSView as application resource file
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, joost witteveen wrote:
> > Xosview only reads the file XOSView (and ~/.Xdefaults) when evaluating
> > its X resources. It does this by doing all the reading by foot (calling
> > XrmGetFileDatabase() etc.).
> > This is IMO the wrong way to do it; the application should use
> > XtGetApplicationResources() (as xsysinfo does it).
>
> You're absolutely right.
>
> The upstream maintainer disagrees (well, he agrees, but doesn't want
> to change it, AFAIK).
>
> do you want me to
> 1 move xosview to 'contrib', and stop maintaining it
> 2 just go on maintaining a broken xosview?
>
> Sometimes, I really don't know what to do.
In general, unless you particularly want to do something about the
problem yourself, I'd vote for (2). Note that there's now a procmeter
package which displays the same information as xosview and more...
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