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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Application resource file etiquette
Message-ID: <1990Oct7.050129.21669@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 7 Oct 90 05:01:29 GMT
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In article <69391@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom) writes:
|>     1.	Thanks for your incentive and investigation into this, but don't
|> 	you think that publishing a note like yours will cause an explosion
|> 	of non-portability as some people impkement your patch and others
|> 	don't?  Or are you an official spokesperson for the X Consortium?
|> 	(Not sarcasm.  An honest question.)

I don't think this is exactly fair.  I believe that it is understood that
code and patches sent to comp.windows.x and xpert are unofficial and
unsupported.  Most people tend to use these items as emergency stopgaps,
and do not incorporate these things into their work.  Of course,
Richard did suggest it, so people might...

|>     2.	Nit picking time: wouldn't it be more consistent to use colons (`:')
|> 	as your color name separator as is done for other alternate choices?

Where are there other alternate choices in X?  (Just interested.)

As a side note, I think that the method of choice in the code change
is incorrect.  The original description said that the fallback should
be used if the color request fails.  This deals cleanly with all
screen depths and visual classes, not just 8-bit PseudoColor and
StaticGray.

In any case, I don't like this solution myself because it is yet
another syntax for the poor user to have to learn.  The person who
suggested this scheme should be slapped.

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