On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:09:43AM +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote:
> My understand that:
>
> `X resource files (e.g /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm) is
> conffiles'. So in xfree86_4.0.1.deb, X RESOURCE files will move from
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults directory to /etc/X11/app-defaults
> directory and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults symlink point to
> /etc/X11/app-defaults
>
> Is it right?
Yes, that is correct, and a change from traditional Debian policy.
However, upstream is pointing the way and it is clear that they want
app-defaults files in /etc.
> But X resource files are not only place in /usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults.
> We can put X resource file to /usr/X11R6/lib/$LANG/app-defaults.
Very true; I initially tried to fix this properly but it wouldn't work.
[...]
> I think better to set not only #define XAppLoadDir but also
> #define XFileSearchPathDefaul host.def
>
> If #define XFileSearchPathDefaul is set like this:
>
> #define XFileSearchPathDefault
>Concat4(EtcX11Directory/%L/%T/%N%C,%S:EtcX11Directory/%l/%T/%N%C,%S:EtcX11Directory/%T/%N%C,%S:EtcX11Directory/%L/%T/%N%S:EtcX11Directory/%l/%T/%N%S:EtcX11Directory/%T/%N%S):Concat4($(LIBDIR)/%L/%T/%N%C,%S:$(LIBDIR)/%l/%T/%N%C,%S:$(LIBDIR)/%T/%N%C,%S:$(LIBDIR)/%L/%T/%N%S:$(LIBDIR)/%l/%T/%N%S:$(LIBDIR)/%T/%N%S)
>
> X resource searching order is bellow:
>
> $HOME/ja_JP.eucJP/XCalendar
> $HOME/ja/XCalendar
> $HOME/XCalendar
> /etc/X11/ja_JP.eucJP/app-defaults/XCalendar
> /etc/X11/ja/app-defaults/XCalendar
> /etc/X11/app-defaults/XCalendar
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ja_JP.eucJP/app-defaults/XCalendar
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ja/app-defaults/XCalendar
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XCalendar
>
> If the package's X resources installed into
> /etc/X11/ja_JP.eucJP/app-defaults and /etc/X11/app-defaults,
> X resource switching by using env LANG scheme will work correctly.
>
> Any comments?
I will apply your patch for phase2v20, and we'll see if it works. Thanks
very much for your contribution.
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