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From: garya@marvin.Solbourne.COM (Gary Aitken)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: application resource file location
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.043946.21061@Solbourne.COM>
Date: 6 Sep 90 04:39:46 GMT
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The "standard" place for an application's default resources
is 

	/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults

The "standard" place for all other files related to an
application is

	/usr/lib/X11/<application_name>

Considering that an application may read various
other X resource files, such as:

	a prototyper configuration file
	language specific resource overrides
	various other "custom" configuration files
		to implement "standard" configurations
		which might be invoked from a command line
		option

Now, considering that it's probably not a good idea to merge
these files into a single .Xdefaults file which could be put
in app-defaults,

Doesn't it make sense for the normal application resources
to reside in the same place as everything else for the
application, namely

	/usr/lib/X11/<application_name>

And while we're at it, doesn't it make sense for the 
application default resource file to be named

	.Xdefaults

in that directory?