[Xcb] peer review for xcb-util-xrm

[Ian at The TOVA Company]

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> 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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