Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven!mimsy!mojo!stripes From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Help w/ resources, maybe what I want in R5... Message-ID: <1990Jun29.052705.29228@eng.umd.edu> Date: 29 Jun 90 05:27:05 GMT References: Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 34 In article warsaw@cme.nist.gov (Barry A. Warsaw) writes: [...] >In the case of #4, then consider this a RFE for R5. I'd like to see an >extension to the resource manager where the user can specify a >"universal highest precedence wildcard match" sequence, so that I >could put this sequence in my resource setting and it would act like a >wildcard, but with higher precedence than the fully specified >componant. I propose ".*", but the exact sequence doesn't matter >really. This would modify my general resource settings described at >the beginning of this article to look like this: > > .*Command.ShapeStyle: Oval > .*Command.Foreground: Black > .*Command.Background: Wheat > .*Command.Font: helvetica.b.12 > .*SimpleMenu.Foreground: Black > .*SimpleMenu.Background: LightYellow > .*SimpleMenu.Font: newcent.14 As long as the app-defaults can *still* override the user this is a good idea. If a system manager puts: .*Xlock.LogoutAfterTimeOut: jolt.eng.umd.edu,pepsi.eng.umd.edu,coke.eng.umd.edu .*Xlock.TimeOut: 15 It should be hard for the user to overide it (the program can unset enviroment vars before Xt can read them, so that's Ok. Nothing can stop users from getting source to publicaly avail software, so I'm ignoring that...). -- stripes@eng.umd.edu "Security for Unix is like Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The Mutitasking for MS-DOS" "The dyslexic porgramer" - Kevin Lockwood "Don't try to change C into some nice, safe, portable programming language with all sharp edges removed, pick another language." - John Limpert