Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:32:14 -0000 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: who's setting a wild-card'ed background color resource. Message-ID: <1066840329.720.20.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <16278.44817.594269.512181@rosebud.alerce.com> References: <16277.26860.235109.20911@rosebud.alerce.com> <16277.47059.927449.720954@rosebud.alerce.com> <1066780507.97635.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <16278.44817.594269.512181@rosebud.alerce.com>
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--=-7nmkABkvHHMdBx5HJOv1 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 12:23, George Hartzell wrote: > Joe Marcus Clarke writes: > > On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 18:48, George Hartzell wrote: > > > George Hartzell writes: > > > >=20 > > > > I just got done updating ports on my 4.8 (4.8-RELEASE-p7) laptop, > > > > using the current ports tree (as of a couple of days ago). > > > >=20 > > > > [...] > > > >=20 > > > > The problem is: my custom background colors have disappeared. > > > >=20 > > > > [...] > > > >=20 > > > > I think what's killing me is this resource: > > > >=20 > > > > *background: #dcdad5 > > > >=20 > > > > [...] > > > >=20 > > > > I can't figure out where it's getting set. Is is part of one of = the > > > > myriad themes that the various gnome things use? > > > >=20 > > > > Pointers/suggestions would be appreciated. > > >=20 > > > [...] > > >=20 > > > It seems that it's some portion of the > > > gnome-control-center/theme-manager/gnome-settings-daemon that's > > > "helping" me out with this. > > >=20 > > > There are a bunch of relevant files in > > > /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/control-center-2.0/xrdb, which are being used > > > as templates. > > >=20 > > > So, now the question is, how to control this behaviour.=20 > > > [...] > > > > I don't see anywhere in gconf that this can be controlled. You might = be > > able to trick gnome-settings-daemon by creating bogus .ad files in > > ~/.gnome2/xrdb. >=20 > Well, it looks like it's not even a matter of *tricking* > gnome-settings-daemon, it's set up to let you use your settings in > favor of the system defaults by putting an identically named file in > your .gnome2/xrdb. >=20 > *Except* for General.ad, which is what's splatting the wild-card > resource. gnome-settings-xrdb.c:scan_for_files() does this: >=20 > /* Add the initial file */ > list =3D g_slist_prepend (list, g_strdup (GENERAL_AD)); >=20 > after merging the user and system app-default-file lists (preferring > the user version). >=20 > Is there a gnome list/group where I could raise the issue of how badly > this violates the POLA? I could argue that the wildcard resource is > nasty, or that being able override everything except the General.ad > file is odd, or that there should be some way to control the > behaviour. Or, someone could convince me that this is the way that it > should be (in which case I'll comment it out in the system file...). You might bring this up on desktop-devel-list@gnome.org. Joe >=20 > g. --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-7nmkABkvHHMdBx5HJOv1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/lrEJb2iPiv4Uz4cRAjPLAKCq5FjAVPhl1tOZp+NA+qisRXVkTACgksnN H3Jnhd/LJGBmZB5px+yfgzY= =6Kh2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-7nmkABkvHHMdBx5HJOv1--
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