[compiz] Core option sorting in metadata

David Reveman davidr at novell.com
Wed Jul 11 15:40:41 PDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 16:48 +0200, Danny Baumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> currently, all sorting order of the core and core plugin options inside
> the metadata files is based on the order they are listed in the C source
> files. Unfortunately, that's not optimal for automatic settings manager
> GUI generation.
> 
> DO you think it's ok to sort them by functional groups? This would have
> the advantage of settings managers being aware of the functional
> grouping, which would help a lot in creating them.
> 
> I have attached a patch which re-sorts the core options a bit to reflect
> that - what do you think about it? Is this change ok to go in?

A function attribute or function element should be added to the option
element if functional groups are desirable.

-David



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