On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, joost witteveen wrote: > > Xosview only reads the file XOSView (and ~/.Xdefaults) when evaluating > > its X resources. It does this by doing all the reading by foot (calling > > XrmGetFileDatabase() etc.). > > This is IMO the wrong way to do it; the application should use > > XtGetApplicationResources() (as xsysinfo does it). > > You're absolutely right. > > The upstream maintainer disagrees (well, he agrees, but doesn't want > to change it, AFAIK). > > do you want me to > 1 move xosview to 'contrib', and stop maintaining it > 2 just go on maintaining a broken xosview? > > Sometimes, I really don't know what to do.
In general, unless you particularly want to do something about the problem yourself, I'd vote for (2). Note that there's now a procmeter package which displays the same information as xosview and more... (S)
