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

[Rex Dieter]

PCMan wrote:
> Previously I proposed a way to handle this.
> We have a common dir named /etc/xdg-utils/xdg-settings.d or something.
> Then, each desktop environment install their own wrapper script into this dir.
> For example:
> /etc/xdg-utils/xdg-settings.d/50-gnome-settings
> /etc/xdg-utils/xdg-settings.d/50-kde-settings
> /etc/xdg-utils/xdg-settings.d/50-xfce-settings

I agree with this notion, such modularity being on the xdg-utils roadmap 
and something for the next major release.

-- Rex