<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">This tickled a memory from waaay back in 2008:<div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><font face="MonacoCY" size="1">It is a TODO item to extract [XStringToKeysym()’s</font><span style="font-family: MonacoCY; font-size: x-small;">] functionality from Xlib and into an </span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: MonacoCY; font-size: 9px;">xcb/util library. Part of the problem is that it depends on Xrm </span><br style="font-family: MonacoCY; font-size: 9px;"><span style="font-family: MonacoCY; font-size: 9px;">(resource manager) to read /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB, and nobody on the </span><br style="font-family: MonacoCY; font-size: 9px;"><span style="font-family: MonacoCY; font-size: 9px;">XCB team wants to touch Xrm with a ten foot pole. This is also why Xt </span><br style="font-family: MonacoCY; font-size: 9px;"><span style="font-family: MonacoCY; font-size: 9px;">hasn't been ported yet.</span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>I wonder if XCBStringToKeysym() has been waiting for xcb-util-xrm all this time?</div><div><br></div><div>I have no time to review this myself, but thanks for writing this!</div><div><br></div><div>Ian</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 30, 2016, at 2:44 AM, Ingo Bürk <<a href="mailto:admin@airblader.de">admin@airblader.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi everyone,<br><br>as previously discussed, there has been work on a new XCB util library<br>xcb-util-xrm to have the XCB equivalent of the Xrm* functions of Xlib,<br>allowing access to resource management. The library is now nearing a<br>first stable release and we aim to use it in several projects, such as<br>i3, awesome, cairo, xcb-util-cursor and rofi.<br><br>In order to gain confidence in the library and avoid breakage, I'd like<br>to openly call for a peer review by anyone who is interested. You can<br>find the repository under [1], but please also leave a comment in issue<br>[2] that you will be reviewing the library. Feel free to ask any<br>questions, open issues etc.<br><br>There's currently no hard timeline on when the review will be closed.<br><br>[1] <a href="https://github.com/Airblader/xcb-util-xrm">https://github.com/Airblader/xcb-util-xrm</a><br>[2] <a href="https://github.com/Airblader/xcb-util-xrm/issues/33">https://github.com/Airblader/xcb-util-xrm/issues/33</a><br><br><br>Regards<br>Ingo<br>_______________________________________________<br>Xcb mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Xcb@lists.freedesktop.org">Xcb@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br>https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xcb</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>