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From: Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>
To: Jonathan Liu <net147@gmail.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libx11: enable Xcms by default
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:34:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1371710061.8611.26.camel@pb-ThinkPad-R50e> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371693296-6834-1-git-send-email-net147@gmail.com>

On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 11:54 +1000, Jonathan Liu wrote:
> The following do not work if Xcms is not enabled in libx11:
> - starting xterm and doing ls --color / fails to color code the
>   directories:
>   xterm: Cannot allocate color "rgb:5c/5c/ff"
> - xsetroot -solid rgb:5c/5c/ff fails with the following error:
>   xsetroot:  unknown color "rgb:5c/5c/ff"
> - xsetroot -solid rgbi:1.0/1.0/1.0 fails with the following error:
>   xsetroot:  unknown color "rgbi:1.0/1.0/1.0"
> 
> More specifically, applications that pass Xcms color names to
> XParseColor do not work properly.

The comment that you are deleting suggests that this behaviour is by
design:

> -# Let people with incredibly archaic requirements enable Xcms, but disable it by
> -# default.

Since there's already a PACKAGECONFIG option for this, can't you just
enable that in your distro configuration rather than changing the
default?  I don't think it's ever been the expectation that the default
settings will represent "maximum functionality".

p.




  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-20  6:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-20  1:54 [PATCH] libx11: enable Xcms by default Jonathan Liu
2013-06-20  6:34 ` Phil Blundell [this message]
2013-06-20  8:29   ` Jonathan Liu
2013-06-20  9:54   ` Burton, Ross
2013-06-26 10:19     ` Burton, Ross

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