[Xcb] peer review for xcb-util-xrm

[Ingo Bürk]

Hi Ian,

thank you for the pointer. It's good to learn about more cases where
this util might be useful (more usages → easier to get it available on
platforms). In fact the entire thing is pretty much agnostic to X,
whether it's Xlib or XCB. It's too bad it was released as part of Xlib
rather than an independent util, but there's no point in doing this any
different for XCB now.

Anyhow, I'll keep XStringToKeysym and Xt in mind. The library has a
pretty extensive test suite, IMHO, and there are currently only two
deviations from Xlib's behavior (one is a bug, the other is actually
Xlib not following the spec). With more experience from using it in
non-XCB applications we might be able to enhance XCB itself using this.
We'll see.


Regards
Ingo

On 03/30/2016 04:10 PM, Ian at The TOVA Company wrote:
> This tickled a memory from waaay back in 2008:
>
>> It is a TODO item to extract [XStringToKeysym()’s] functionality from
>> Xlib and into an  
>> xcb/util library.  Part of the problem is that it depends on Xrm  
>> (resource manager) to read /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB, and nobody on the  
>> XCB team wants to touch Xrm with a ten foot pole. This is also why Xt  
>> hasn't been ported yet.
>
> I wonder if XCBStringToKeysym() has been waiting for xcb-util-xrm all
> this time?
>
> I have no time to review this myself, but thanks for writing this!
>
> Ian
>
> On Mar 30, 2016, at 2:44 AM, Ingo Bürk <admin at airblader.de
> <mailto:admin at airblader.de>> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> as previously discussed, there has been work on a new XCB util library
>> xcb-util-xrm to have the XCB equivalent of the Xrm* functions of Xlib,
>> allowing access to resource management. The library is now nearing a
>> first stable release and we aim to use it in several projects, such as
>> i3, awesome, cairo, xcb-util-cursor and rofi.
>>
>> In order to gain confidence in the library and avoid breakage, I'd like
>> to openly call for a peer review by anyone who is interested. You can
>> find the repository under [1], but please also leave a comment in issue
>> [2] that you will be reviewing the library. Feel free to ask any
>> questions, open issues etc.
>>
>> There's currently no hard timeline on when the review will be closed.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/Airblader/xcb-util-xrm
>> [2] https://github.com/Airblader/xcb-util-xrm/issues/33
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Ingo
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