Bug 247655

Summary:	x11-misc/xosview doesn't load its app-defaults resources file
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alexander Miller <alex.miller>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Desktop Misc. Team <desktop-misc>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alexander Miller 2008-11-20 01:01:15 UTC

The xosview ebuild installs a resources file as "/etc/X11/app-defaults/XOsview", but the application doesn't look in that place for its resources.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. edit "/etc/X11/app-defaults/XOsview"
2. run xosview

Actual Results:  
the changes have no effect.

Expected Results:  
the appearance of xosview should reflect the settings in "/etc/X11/app-defaults/XOsview".

Xosview looks for a "XOsview" file in "/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults", "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults", "/usr/openwin/lib/X11/app-defaults", and "/usr/local/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults". The first directory is added by "files/xosview-resdir.patch", i.e., gentoo-specific. I think that in some older versions of xorg  "/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults" was a symlink to "/etc/X11/app-defaults", so xosview would have found the file, but now "/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults" doesn't exist (at least on my computer).

The correct search path for xorg would be:
1. "/etc/X11/app-defaults"
2. "/usr/share/X11/app-defaults"
3. "/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults"
(Locale-specific directories could be prepended, too. But I think that's going too far.)

Resolution:
The patch "files/xosview-resdir.patch" should be changed such that the "XOsview" file is searched in "/etc/X11/app-defaults" and "/usr/share/X11/app-defaults", too. Since xosview loads all resource files it finds, "/etc/X11/app-defaults" should be searched *last*.

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-12-23 16:15:18 UTC

fixed