On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Brian S. Julin wrote:
> > 6) Running -inroot under 8bpp X stops other apps from running
>
> This is my main reason for writing this update as the is the last
> really sticky issue; The above problem can be fixed by adding an
> XSetWindowColormap to put the value gotten from XDefaultColormap
> back into the root window when done, but raises the question --
> is it the right thing to do to entirely change the ID of the root
> window's colormap as we now do, or should we instead add our
> colors to the default colormap and then delete them back out when
> we are done? This I ask considering the effect on other X apps
> including GGI apps. Opinions?
I don't know, which way is the right one, due to lack of experience
with X. I would go this way: Provide patches for each way you propose
above on the list and hope to get feedback. The patch, which takes
less issues open is likely the right way... :)
> > Stuff to do after release-candidate before 2.0 final release:
> >
> > 1) Unify docs, decide doc website build policy
>
> It seems docs are ahead of this schedule -- will the new material
> generate all the docs we currently have? If so, then maybe we should
> delete the old files now?
Before we are going to do that, shouldn't we check the old docs, if
there is something, which is still (partly) valid??
> Other things done: Christoph cleaned up some header install issues
> and compiler warnings. We no longer install unusable internal debug
> headers.
This is currently true for libgii. For all other libs/extensions the
build-system is prepared to fix that.
I am going to finish this for libggi now.
CU,
Christoph Egger
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