Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Colors

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From: John McDermott <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 99 16:58:17
--- On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:23:51 -0700 (PDT)  Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

>> I'm aware of that, but X resources are so convenient and easy to manipulate 

>> and control.
>
>"Easy to manipulate and control" in what sense?
>

I did not know that this was so controversial.  Really, I like the control, as 
a user, of being able to control resources on the command line or from a file 
or dynamically with a program.  As an administrator I like to be able to set 
system-wide defaults which knowledgable users can then change.

>
>> Also, with the NT version, I have no idea how that version of GTK 
>> would receive resource information.
>
>I.e., the X resource database is available only to X applications;
>Ethereal is likely, over time, to grow more non-X versions, e.g. a
>tty-based or "curses"-based version, or a Win32 version.
>
I have seen the early Win32 stuff.  I know very little about the gtk on Win32 
libraries.  Do they have any external configuration?

I will look at the Troll Tech stuff.  I personally use resources under KDE a 
lot because KDE sets default colors I don't like.

--john


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