Bug 20017

Summary:	RGBPath removal removed support for customized colors
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Rich Coe <Richard.Coe>
Component:	Server/General	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	regression
Version:	git
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Rich Coe 2009-02-09 06:49:28 UTC

This change removed support for specifying custom colors to the Xserver:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=dda10c9066a660b647384179f82e1da8e063264

Is there any other known way to define or extend color definitions
in the Xserver?

Comment 1 Rich Coe 2009-02-09 06:58:39 UTC

This change:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=8987b2c1efc9a4667e278e6ba411772ba2a4a4e6

Stopped reading the rgb.txt file for specifying colors.

Comment 2 Alan Coopersmith 2009-02-09 09:17:32 UTC

Have the clients choose the right color themselves?

Customizing the global color configuration for the X server was always a
poor fit for client color management - what do you do if different clients
have different needs?   How do you ensure the changes are made on all X
servers your client may display on?

Comment 3 Rich Coe 2009-02-09 09:43:13 UTC

The use case is a common set of colors across many apps.

Comment 4 Rich Coe 2009-02-11 09:57:51 UTC

export XCMSDB=path/to/xcms.txt

Default xcms.txt file shows the format.

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