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[gtk-list] Re: proposed standard for gtkrc files?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Garzik)
Tue Dec 1 19:18:56 1998

To: gtk-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 19:19:18 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: jgarzik@pobox.com
In-Reply-To: <36648551.1D48AB55@earthlink.net> from "brent verner" at Dec 1, 98 07:09:53 pm
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Resent-From: gtk-list@redhat.com

brent verner wrote:
> Karl Nelson wrote:
> > I am not sure if /etc is the proper place to put a widget library
> > configuration file.  Haven't these traditionally come under
> > ${XDIR}/lib/X11, allong with app-defaults, extensision, and other
> > X related config.

> > As a system adminatrator of a large site, I perfer having only
> > those things tied to one machine in etc.  A /usr (read shared
> > user files) level library should not place its configuration
> > outside the /usr tree.  It would be just plan bad form.

> yeah, you are right. since gtk is specific to the X app, its global
> config file should be beneath the X tree.

Sun didn't seem to think so.  CDE is under /usr/dt.

	Jeff



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