XML Desktop config files (was: Re: Tons of questions. And some patches

[Dr. Juergen Pfennig]

Hi,
I did really not want to trigger that XML discussion - I wanted to get other 
things cleaned-up first (the mmap problem, cf-lf line termination and utf-8 
detection via byte order prefix).

On Monday 26 January 2004 17:57, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Dr. Juergen Pfennig wrote:
> >KConfig lives in kdecore. Using libxml on this "low" level might cause
> > an unwanted dependecy on a non-KDE library. Would this be acceptable?
>
> Probably not. Write a plugin that can be loaded with KLibrary or some
> factory.

That's an idea that I like. Frans Englich initially asked wheter Desktop files 
could support XML - and they are handled on a much higher level. Konqueror or 
whatever could load an XML plugin for desktop files and could register an 
XML-hook (a QT signal that passes the XML document maybe? But that would 
break binary compatibility - I guess).

> The interesting twist is that the plugin's description file would be
> INI-style.

Sure. For simple theoretical (and practical) reasons the INI style files will 
always be faster than XML and so most of the config files should remain as 
they are.

Jürgen