I think, as always, that the whole system is missing an homogeneous way to deal with configurations. Configuration files with different formats aren't a good solution. There should be an API together with generic TUI and GUI tools to precisely handle every aspect of some software configuration that it published as configurable. And this should be system wide, and not only related to a specific framework.
<br><br>Today the layout and access of software configuration is on the hands of the distributions. They define where a conf file should be and its layout, and this is why each distro is different, and why you have to re-learn how to deal with a new distro.
<br><br>If such initiative can become mainstream, things like menu spec or integration between unrelated components will be an almost solved issue.<br><br>This is my suggestion, and I'm obviously talking about Elektra.<br>
<br>Thank you,<br>Avi<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Aaron J. Seigo</b> <<a href="mailto:aseigo@kde.org">aseigo@kde.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
hi all...<br><br>there is an upcoming LSB summit[1] on the 1st and 2nd of june. i will be in<br>attendance representing kde; waldo will also be there (though he's officially<br>wearing his intel / osdl / fd.o assortment of hats ;).
<br><br>there are a number of issues of great relevance to KDE on the agenda, as it<br>has a very concentrated on effort on the desktop side of the LSB and making<br>the LSB actually useful to ISVs, OSVs, etc...<br><br>now ... i really don't care if you think the LSB is bullocks. i know many
<br>people share that sentiment and that's fine by me. but i'd like to avoid this<br>becoming a debate over the LSB or the FSG itself.<br><br>what i am interested in is feedback from the KDE creative community of<br>developers, artists, documenters, etc... on specific items that are on the
<br>agenda[1]. if you have input on them such as things you would like to ensure<br>are addressed, concerns, wishes, thoughts, paper dolls or rainy day dreams<br>please discuss them now.<br><br>i'd like to go into this being able to represent the needs and thoughts of our
<br>project as well as possible, which means i need to know what those needs and<br>thoughts are. =)<br><br>thank you, love, hugs and all that jazz *tippity tappity tap tap tap*[2]<br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.freestandards.org/en/LSB_Summit">
http://www.freestandards.org/en/LSB_Summit</a><br>[2] that's my "have i have enough caffeine yet?" dance<br><br>--<br>Aaron J. Seigo<br>GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43<br><br>
Full time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (<a href="http://www.trolltech.com">http://www.trolltech.com</a>)<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>