Re: top post fixer?
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:27:07PM -0500, Steve C. Lamb wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:57:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Personally, I feel this hardcoding of colors in the application is a
> > downside of X.
>
> One of the few visual things I miss from OS/2. There I had my apps set to
> white on black and they all behaved properly. Colors were set in the OS'
> configuration not the application's. The apps could override, obviously, but
> their default was the OS' settings. Combine that with a quick way to switch
> color schemes (which OS/2 had) and you could easily have your desire for
> different color schemes based on the lighting conditions you were operating
> under.
That is, I believe, what X resources are for.
Does everyone ignore them?
-- hendrik
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