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KRDB V0.2
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CHANGES V0.2
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- use QFontInfo
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- general purpose files e.g. AAAMotif.ad thanks to Gerd
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Knorr <kraxel@goldbach.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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The krdb utility provides a convenient way to manage the
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resources of legacy applications on your KDE desktop.
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Simply run krdb every time you want to update the resources
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of your supported apps.
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You can easily write application default files for your own
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applications. To see how, follow the example of the
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supplied application default file for XV which specifies
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xv*foreground: FOREGROUND
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xv*background: BACKGROUND
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xv*highlight: HIGHLIGHT
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xv*lowlight: LOWLIGHT
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xv*monofont: FIXED_FONT
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The applications resources assign variables which will be
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defined by krdb. The complete list of possible variables to
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choose from is
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FOREGROUND, BACKGROUND, HIGHLIGHT, LOWLIGHT,
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WINDOW_FOREGROUND, WINDOW_BACKGROUND, SELECT_FOREGROUND,
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SELECT_BACKGROUND, INACTIVE_FOREGROUND,
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INACTIVE_BACKGROUND, INACTIVE_BLEND, ACTIVE_FOREGROUND,
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ACTIVE_BACKGROUND, ACTIVE_BLEND, FONT, BOLD_FONT, ITALIC_FONT,
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FIXED_FONT, TITLE_FONT and FONTLIST.
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Their meaning should be obvious to anyone familiar with
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KDE's desktop wide resources. Install your application
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default file either in
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$(TDEDIR)/share/apps/tdedisplay/app-defaults
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or
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$(HOME)/.trinity/share/apps/tdedisplay/app-defaults
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so that it is available to krdb for reading. If you want to
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override a system file simply copy it to your user
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directory and make amendments.
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The krdb utility works by putting your current KDE color
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and font scheme into preprocessor statements, concatenating
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the specially written application default files and using
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xrdb -merge to write to RESOURCE_MANAGER. Thus it gives a
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simple way to make non-TDE applications fit in with the
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desktop.
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krdb now comes with a set of general purpose configuration
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files for the Motif, Xaw and TK toolkits. How well these
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general purpose resources apply to specific applications
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will depend on what other application defaults are
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installed. If you want krdb general resource files to apply
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most generally you should not have application specific
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entries for similar resources in ~/.Xdefaults or in the
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system app-defaults directory e.g.
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/usr/lib/X11R6/app-defaults.
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