Didier Verna <verna(a)inf.enst.fr&gt; writes: My themes stuff has to do that anyway. There isn't a real reason you could consider, f.e., your Xresources as a special king of "theme". We can discuss this in Tsukuba. Ok. You have a point there. I think this can be solved with a little marketing :-). Indeed. However that's simply because nobody has written it yet. A first implementation could be a trivial cut&paste job from set-variable. This is solved in Holland (in job advertisements etc) by appending a (v/m) to the name, for female/male. So have. "We are looking for a painter(f/m)". It works good enough for the discussion to have more or less died down. However you can not use that solution since it comes from Holland :-). The problem is really worse with "secretary" as there the male and female forms mean two different professions nowadays! secretaresse (female form) = typing, answering telephone etc.. As in "I'll ask my secretary to make an appointment. sectretaris (male form) = Managing assistant As in "Secretary of State". So now you can have a male secretaresse for a female secretaris! Jan