Re: FVWM: Re: fvwm and colors, please help

From: jim <jim_at_kosmic.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 16:46:43 -0400 (EDT)

1. At least some X applications that I've encountered over the years
   don't accept color specifications with spaces in them. From thens
   cometh "Slate Grey", "slategray", etc.

2. If rgb.txt must be sorted, it probably makes more sense to sort it
   on the values rather than the text (ie, it makes more sense to me
   for "off white" and "old lace" to appear between "white" and
   "yellow" than between "orange" and "purple".

3. showrgb dumps the table. If you don't like the output,
   perl/sed/awk/grep/cut are your friends. TTWWDTIU.*

4. This isn't exactly the right forum for discussing the organization
   of X color name to value mapping. rgb.txt and showrgb are part of
   X, not fvwm; last I looked, fvwm2 ran fine on a mono server.

- Jim

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* (That's The Way We Do Things In UNIX.)
Neil Zanella writes:
 > 
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I don't want to make a big deal out of this and I think it's OK to have the 
 > choice of whether to type "wHATevErColor" or "whatever CoLoR" though I would
 > like to see some consistency in the datafile. I just thought that the output
 > of showrgb looked sloppy since some entries are listed in both uppercase and 
 > lowercase and some are not. This hints to the novice that there are some 
 > differences between the ones that are listed twice and the ones that aren't.
 > Perhaps some of you don't agree with me that the output of rgb is sloppy.
 > Mine was only a minor suggestion: if no one modifies it to look better I can 
 > certainly live with that and shall fuss no more ;-) .
 > 
 > Best regards,
 > 
 > Neil
 > 
 > Oh  Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Patrick K. wrote:
 > 
 > > 
 > > Sometime in the late 1900s nzanella_at_cs.mun.ca (Neil Zanella) typed:
 > > 
 > > > The colors are indeed carelessly listed.
 > > > What bothers me the most is that some colors have multiple entries whereas 
 > > > others don't. Here is part of my showrgb output:
 > > > 
 > > > Note that "snow" appears once, "ghostwhite" appears twice as "ghost white"
 > > > and "GhostWhite", and "slategray" apperas four times as "slate gray", "SlateGrey", and then once more "slate grey", and "SlateGrey".
 > > > 
 > > > 255 250 250             snow
 > > > 248 248 255             ghost white
 > > > 248 248 255             GhostWhite
 > > 
 > > [dd]
 > > 
 > > > Rather, IMHO there should be only one entry for each color like
 > > 
 > >    Why?!?
 > > 
 > >    I like to have the choice to type "slategray" on Tuesdays and
 > >    "SlateGray" on every Saturday, not to mention my Wednesday
 > >    habbit to type "slate grey" and my ritual of typing
 > >    "SlateGrey" every 2nd Monday of the month.
 > > 
 > >    So unless you want to make the parser for the RGB db accept
 > >    *and* understand all the different ways of representing a
 > >    colour using english text... don't bother!
 > > 
 > > 
 > > > 255 250 250             snow
 > > > 248 248 255             ghost white
 > > > 245 245 245             white smoke
 > > > 220 220 220             gainsboro
 > > > 255 250 240             floral white
 > > > ...                     ...
 > > > 
 > > > Also, the entries should be displayed in alphabetical order (why not)?
 > > 
 > > 
 > >    Why again?  Do you visit this file so often that you need
 > >    to have it in alpha order?
 > > 
 > >    If you are concerened about finding certain text in there
 > >    and do not want to be scrolling up and down so much, then
 > >    I must wonder why you are not using '/usr/bin/grep' to list
 > >    the entries for you?
 > > 
 > >    Just my 2 cents on the matter,   :>
 > > 
 > > 
 > > Patrick K.
 > > 
 > > P.S.  Also see `man sort' for more options to sort your `showrgb'
 > >       output.
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