Bug#648553: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#648553: xfce4-utils: runs xrdb -merge with the -nocpp option

2011-11-18 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu., 2011-11-17 at 13:19 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org writes: I've asked Xfce people about that, and they don't really remember why -nocpp is passed. Looking a bit on Google, I found

Bug#648553: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#648553: xfce4-utils: runs xrdb -merge with the -nocpp option

2011-11-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org writes: On jeu., 2011-11-17 at 13:19 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Well, hopefully one would only use the default behavior when loading the user's personal configuration (and maybe system-wide defaults), where cpp is part of the expected interface. Well, it

Bug#648553: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#648553: xfce4-utils: runs xrdb -merge with the -nocpp option

2011-11-18 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2011-11-18 at 10:36 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org writes: On jeu., 2011-11-17 at 13:19 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Well, hopefully one would only use the default behavior when loading the user's personal configuration (and maybe system-wide

Bug#648553: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#648553: xfce4-utils: runs xrdb -merge with the -nocpp option

2011-11-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org writes: On ven., 2011-11-18 at 10:36 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I don't *think* you're likely to run into any backward compatibility problems by removing -nocpp from Xfce. I can't think of an otherwise valid .Xresources file that would then break. I

Bug#648553: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#648553: xfce4-utils: runs xrdb -merge with the -nocpp option

2011-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org writes: I've asked Xfce people about that, and they don't really remember why -nocpp is passed. Looking a bit on Google, I found http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2005-October/msg00024.html and I think the command line was basically copied from

Bug#648553: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#648553: xfce4-utils: runs xrdb -merge with the -nocpp option

2011-11-15 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On sam., 2011-11-12 at 13:01 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I just switched from GNOME to Xfce and discovered that all of my xterms were using a microfont. It took a bit of tracking down, but this was because .Xresources wasn't being run through the preprocessor, so the xterm font was being set