[Portland] Fwd: [Desktop_architects] Querying desktop settings like default browser and proxy configuration

[PCMan]

A common configuration system is needed.
Only proxy settings and default browser, which is quite simple and
short, are store in a plain text file. Other system configurations can
still goes to their own configuration system.
Otherwise, exposing those configs via XSettings daemon is another option.

Or, having a common dbus interface used to query config values from
different desktop environments seems to be yet another option.
Wrapper scripts seem to solve the problem partially for now in a dirty way.
In the long run, however, this can only cause more problems and make
things more complicated. How can you deal with desktop environments
other than Gnome and KDE?

It's PORTland, not GNOME/KDEland. How about other desktop
environments? Problems should be solved in a really cross-desktop way.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Dan Kegel<dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:15 PM, PCMan<pcman.tw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Besides, is it possible to write a freedesktop.org spec to store those
>> settings in a common place rather than having this kind of wrapper?
>> It's not about common configuration system, which was not accepted in the past.
>> Default browser and proxy settings only contains several smiple
>> strings and a simple ini file is quite suitable for storing this small
>> amount of data.
>
> I think you just described a common configuration system.  Except
> you forgot the hard part: getting kde and gnome to use it.
>
>> Is it really needed to create yet another complicated
>> wrapper script for this?
>
> Unless we create a common configuration system, and convince
> kde and gnome to use it, yes.  (Or it could be a complicated
> wrapper library.)
> - Dan
>