RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler) (05/19/88)
Date: Thu, 19 May 88 13:05:46 +0100
From: Guido van Rossum <mcvax!cwi.nl!guido@uunet.UU.NET>
Then perhaps the protocol and/or Xlib should be extended to allow
retrieval of GC values.
Client interfaces are pretty much expected to cache GC values, and GCs
are not really expected to be shared across clients, so I see little
reason to extend the protocol. I have not seen much clamoring yet for
extending the C Xlib.
After all, there are primitives to get all the information you
want about windows;
Look again, and you will find there is information about windows that
you cannot obtain (background, border, cursor).