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RE: [XBoard-devel] Back From Hibernation
From: |
Daniel Mehrmann |
Subject: |
RE: [XBoard-devel] Back From Hibernation |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:04:39 +0200 |
Hello Tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Mann [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 5:39 AM
> To: Daniel Mehrmann
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [XBoard-devel] Back From Hibernation
>
> > Is that okay for all guys ? Maybe there is a reason why we
> send it to
> > stderr ?
>
> It's OK to send it to a file instead. Sending it to stderr
> is historical. Some/all of the ICS interaction that goes to
> stdout would need to be duplicated into the file too to
> provide context. That used to be a problem with
> WinBoard.debug -- it was hard to debug ICS problems because
> the user input and most of the ICS output were missing -- but
> I think I fixed that in 4.2.7 or so.
>
Okay, thanks. I will observe the file debug. If it okay i change it.
> > Second:
> > I'll wanna create a own directory for xboard as the most UNIX GUI
> > applications do that: ~/.xboard We could put all
> configuration stuff
> > into that dir. Also i want create a default setting file for xboard
> > In this dir, called xboard.conf or xboard.ini with the same
> syntax as
> > winboard.ini.
>
> I guess that's good. Right now xboard uses the standard Xlib
> method of argument parsing, so you can set all the options in
> your .Xdefaults file or a file named ~/XBoard. It would be
> nice not to break that, but on the other hand, the
> winboard.ini code is more powerful and allows for Save Settings.
>
agree. First we should parse .Xdefaults, then we parse
~/.xboard/xboard.conf.
I wanna drop the ~/Xboard file.
Daniel
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