What is it exactly what XSETTINGS does what Xresources can't?

[Havoc Pennington]

Hi,

The xsettings spec discusses this,
http://standards.freedesktop.org/xsettings-spec/xsettings-spec-0.5.html
"Existing Systems"

Havoc

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Wolfgang Draxinger
<wdraxinger.maillist at draxit.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the subject line says it all: I wonder, why exactly and what
> for XSETTINGS is needed? I understand that it's a very good idea to
> have a common way to manage UI settings, heck I'm promoting against
> toolkit propriatary dotfiles since years. But isn't that what
> Xresources/xrdb does?
>
>