Bug#4269: xosview has only XOSView as application resource file
>> 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).
Oh, bad news.
>do you want me to
I do not want you anything :) , but
> 1 move xosview to 'contrib', and stop maintaining it
> 2 just go on maintaining a broken xosview?
i'd vote for 2.
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