Tons of questions. And some patches

[Frans Englich]

On Sunday 25 January 2004 16:23, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Sunday 25 January 2004 16:07, Frans Englich wrote:
> > On Saturday 24 January 2004 15:36, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > > On Saturday 24 January 2004 15:27, Frans Englich wrote:
> > > > Below is a pile of questions and tiny patches. If it was a bad idea
> > > > grouping it all in one mail I will split it up in smaller ones(or
> > > > some other better way).
> > > >
> > > > * AFAICT there is clear advantages of having desktop files in a XML
> > > > format. Why is it not so? Speed issues?
> > >
> > > The most obvious advantage I see with the .ini style .desktop files is
> > > that they're human read- and editable. With xml it's easy to forget
> > > closing a tag or the like, making parsers bail out and stop processing.
> >
> > Exactly, and that's a good thing :) .desktop files is something you write
> > once and then it's done. We want the parsers to bail out in case the
> > .desktop is wrong - that's a great method to clean up bugs. For example,
> > if only XHTML strict existed people would write correct code, and things
> > would be a lot easier.
>
> I'm not talking about the people writing code, I'm talking about a more
> advanced user or sysadmin editing a config file (not writing one from
> scratch) .

Yes, that's another aspect. The issue has become a matter of priority.. Hm..

Cheers,

		Frans