[1854] in Athena Bugs
X11R3 toolkit: X toolkit bitmap locating
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Sun Mar 5 14:15:07 1989
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 89 14:14:42 EST
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
(Please forward as appropriate)
The X11R3 toolkit requires that all bitmap file names passed to it
with resource type bitmap be either absolute pathnames or be located
in the "default bitmap directory."
This one "feature" has caused more complaints about xscreensaver, a
toolkit application I am maintaining, than any other. It is an
accepted practice for Unix applications to search for files starting
at the current working directory when the pathname is not explicit,
and the X toolkit should follow this practice. It would save a lot of
trouble, and it would be a lot more standard than the way things are
now.
jik
