Subject: Bug#4269: xosview has only XOSView as application resource file

From: [email-masked] (joost witteveen)
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 10:02:57 +0200 (MET DST)

> 
> 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). 

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.

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From: Owen Dunn <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:56:56 +0100

> 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...

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From: [email-masked] (Emilio Lopes)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 96 22:19 EST

>>>>> "jw" == joost witteveen <[email-masked]> wrote:

jw> do you want me to 
jw>   1 move xosview to 'contrib', and stop maintaining it
jw>   2 just go on maintaining a broken xosview?

IMHO, you should stick with 1. There are other things that may do the
same thing xosview is supposed to do.

>From sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/INDEX.whole: 

/pub/Linux/X11/xutils/status
procmeter-1.1.tgz    displays a set of graphs with system stats
xsysinfo-1.5.tar.gz  provides a graphical representation of system
                     state

I have not checked them out, though.

Ciao, Emilio.

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From: [email-masked] (Owen Dunn)
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 15:50:22 +0100

>xsysinfo-1.5.tar.gz  provides a graphical representation of system

Debian has packages for both, I believe. (In fact, I'm told that both
I and someone else have packaged procmeter recently, so we'll see
which one gets into the distribution :-) )

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