[11279] in Athena Bugs
solaris (7.6N) xsaber
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@MIT.EDU)
Mon Oct 25 23:49:14 1993
From: cfields@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 93 23:48:55 EDT
To: yandros@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc:
Hello! You recently reported the following problem:
>Subject: solaris (7.6N) xsaber
>
>`xsaber' under solaris is actualyl a dash textwidget, explaining about
>the name change to xcodecenter. This is fine. The widget uses the
>res_class and res_name `Console' and `console', respectively. This is
>wrong. (resources for `Console' should not affect it)
I partially disagree. It is the console program which is being used to
display the text, and hence I believe it should think of itself as being
class Console. The point of the class is so that you can define a behavior
to be followed by all instances of the console program. However, as it is
not behaving as the console itself, I agree that its instance should not
be called console and so avoid grabbing customizations intended specifically
for the true console. In short, it should respond to resource specifications
starting with "Console", but not those starting with "console".
Failing someone convincing me I'm wrong, I will soon inform the person
maintaining that script what changes ought to be made to it. I will also
endeavor to inform other people who use the console for similar purposes
that they should specify a different instance name. And now that you bring
it up, I notice that many of my console resources are incorrectly
specified as Console in my own .Xresources file. I'll have to send myself
a bug report on my dotfiles.
Thank you for your report!
Craig
