Comments on: Lazy Reading for 2022/05/15 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/05/15/lazy-reading-for-2022-05-15/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Tue, 17 May 2022 03:11:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Anonymous https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/05/15/lazy-reading-for-2022-05-15/comment-page-1/#comment-490885 Tue, 17 May 2022 03:11:58 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=26920#comment-490885 FreeBSD 13.1 released.

]]> By: Eric Olson https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/05/15/lazy-reading-for-2022-05-15/comment-page-1/#comment-490880 Sun, 15 May 2022 18:10:50 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=26920#comment-490880 Chris Siebenmann is correct in observing X resources are not used by Gnome, GTK and other toolkits. This may be viewed as a failure. Note, however, that the problem X resources solve–associating configuration parameters with the X server display hardware and decoupling them from shared host and user-level filesystems–was not even mentioned in the article.

In the non-networked environments that form the majority of today’s development systems one does not regularly mix and match X server display hardware with user filesystems and X clients running on different systems. Even the simplest case of home directories shared over NFS is increasingly rare. Thus, the problem that X resources solve doesn’t exist for many developers and is definitely not the focus that it used to be.

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