Bug#389864: rgb text database replaced by static table

[Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it>]

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