RE: [XBoard-devel] Back From Hibernation

[Daniel Mehrmann]

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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