Package: xosview
Version: 1.3.2-6
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). Using
XtGetApplicationResources() makes it possible to have a set of
Application-Default-files which can conditionally be used; the classic
use of this is to have a 'Foo' and a 'Foo-color' resource file, where
'Foo' contains only black & white stuff and 'Foo-color' contains the color
definition and #includes 'Foo'. By doing it this way you can put
#ifdef COLOR
*customization: -color
#endif
...
into your /etc/X11/XDefaults line and all (correctly configured)
applications look their color configuration up in *-color application
definitions.
David
PS: This bug should probably forwarded to the upstream maintainer.
PPS: If I knew enough C++ and if I understood the code dependencies,
I had fixed this myself.
